Finally, some blooms to share!
Though we did get 2 inches of snow yesterday morning. Really. It melted by late afternoon.
It’s been mostly in the 40s & 50s here lately, with lows in the 30s & 40s, but we’re expecting high temps in the 80s on Wednesday and Thursday this week, for the first time since last summer. Rollercoaster (of love).
Poor plants. Poor birds. Poor insects. No one knows what to expect.
Meanwhile, here’s what’s flowering and budding!
Bulbs: tulips, fritillaria uva vulpis, fritillaria meleagris, daffodils, muscari










Perennials: pasqueflower, brunnera, spring bush pea, hellebore





So-called Weeds: dandelion, coltsfoot, violets




Shrubs & Trees: lilacs, ‘Olga Mezitt’ rhododendron, dwarf Andromeda, quince, peach trees






- ‘Red Haven’ peach bloom
Come back in June for lots of flowers!
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Spring is like a perhaps hand
Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging a window,into which people look(while people stare arranging and changing placing carefully there a strange thing and a known thing here)and changing everything carefully spring is like a perhaps Hand in a window (carefully to and fro moving New and Old things,while people stare carefully moving a perhaps fraction of flower here placing an inch of air there)and without breaking anything. -- e e cummings
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More GBBD, hosted at May Dreams Gardens:
… danger garden – always fun for me to see interesting spikey things that don’t grow here
… Late to the Garden Party (south coastal California, so MUCH in bloom!)
… Commonweeder in western Mass. is more my speed
… Veg Plotting in the UK focuses on a clematis
… Dirt Therapy in Vancouver, WA already has lupines, lilacs, salvia, oh my.
… Garden in a City (Chicago, to be exact) has lilacs, columbine, trillium, bleeding heart …
thank you for allowing me to look around. The photo of peach bloom is stunning. It took me a while to fully appreciate it