Some of the plants out there are amazing. The whole place has been covered in snow for more than a week, and when it melted this is what met me: Haquetia epipactis: Erythronium dens-canis, double: One of the pink hellebores: Can you see all the babies in front? Close-up: The miniature narcissi, about 10 cm/4 inches tall: From the rock border: Saxifraga sancta (I think). It's evergreen: And one of the Corydalis solida. It's still small: Things are definately starting to grow, and I feel so much better for it too.
Isn't it lovely to find so much appearing in the garden after snow melts? I really like your Saxifraga sancta Droopy and I must be on the look out for one for myself.
ohhh wow!! lucky you! but you know i don't have much snow now,, but i do have tons of ice if your really missing it,,lol. beautiful pics,, thank you for sharing,, now i have something to look forward to!
Holy Cow, that Saxifrage sancta is gorgeous! The Erythronium, too. Actually they ALL look none the worse from having been undercover for a week. I can see that you are going to have a beautiful garden this year. I am quite happy that you posted these. I don't know how, but your flowers are quite a bit further along than ours here in west-friesland. Do you do "garden witchcraft"? heh heh heh.
What a wonderful greeting for you Droopy! Our snow melted in the last few days and all I found were the very tips of the Daff's trying to grow.
I imagine that one day not too far into the future, I'll get to see what is getting started under the snow, but for now, I sure can enjoy what others are finding from the great pictures. Thanks Droopy, isn't it great how life starts anew each spring? Tom
Beautiful spring flowers! I only have a few varieties, mostly the more common ones like daffodils and tulips. I love the gardening sites this time of the year. Well, most times of the year. dooley
Thank you all for rejoicing with me! I've got more earlies sprouting, I can almost hear them growing, so they must have been re-charging while under that snow. I even killed a fairly big slug and a lily beetle today, so I feel like gardening season's finally arrived.
I have looked at these pics several times. Very interesting, they are. What about that Haquetia epipactis. I do not know thios one, tell me: am I looking at it's flowers there, or are they the leaves? They are a nice light-limey shade of green. You sure do have some interesting plants, miss.
The Haquetia is an acid soil woodland plant, I believe it's from Japan originally. What you see is all there is. The flowers are the yellow thingies in the middle. It's lovely to see in spring because it's so early, and later it's just green and doing it's thing in the shade. I've also got a variegated one, but that's not so far out yet. I'll show it when it starts.
Thank you Palm Tree. I think some of the earlies look smaller than last year. I might not have fed them enough.
What lovely flowers you had hiding droopy. That next to last flower-ground cover. I have those all around because they seem to spread so. I don't get the yellow on them right away, maybe late spring into early summer and they don't stay long. I have seen little shoots of where my flowers will soon be. For now I get to enjoy others.
That sounds strange, Petunia. Here, that Saxifraga is one of the earliest bloomers, and it keeps on for about a month. I've never seen it self-seed either. Wish it would.
