Too many things blooming to fit them all on one scanner bed, so here are the blooms from the warm side of the color wheel, more or less. Larger image.
May Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day Scans: Warm
Category: Perennials
Herbaceous perennials I grow.
More spring pix
Cleaning up some images from a couple weeks ago that I never got around to posting. More to come this weekend when the tulips finally break.
Emerging bloodroot. Â These are singles. Â The doubles are running a few days behind.
Backlit pulmonaria.
and Tulipa ‘I haven’t a clue’.
Peachy primula.
Pulmonaria and stone.
Primulas and pansies
From a couple of weeks ago, some fuzzy close-up that I couldn’t resist fiddling with. Sometimes PhotoShop captures what you can’t get with the camera.
April Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day
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For more about this technique, see Scanning Flowers.
With the cold weather this week, the garden has been in a state of suspended animation. No daffodils or tulips yet, though the former are budding and the the latter did add some leaf.
Small, low-growing spring ephemerals are about all that’s flowering. Various iris are past their prime, most having been damaged by temps in the teens. (Same goes for crocus.) Snowdrops are also past their prime on the south side, but in their prime on the north side of the house. Hellebores are peaking. Pulmonaria, primula and corydalis are coming on. Cyclamen continue to bloom, as they have most of the winter. Coltsfoot flowers show up here and there. Willows are still putting on a show.
This time of the year, foliage adds to the display. Old and new heuchera leaves. Lamium. Scotch thistle. Emerging sedums.
It was nice to do a little garden clean-up today. The soil is still a little on the wet side. Now I’ll say good-bye to the ground for awhile, what with a foot of snow predicted for Sunday and Monday.
More early spring flowers
After 60s F yesterday, we’re headed back into a wintery mix for the next four or five days. (They’re calling for measurable snow Thursday night.) So these pictures from yesterday will probably be the last of the flower pix for awhile as everything goes into suspended animation.
Anyone know if that’s some kind of scilla coming up around the verbascum? I’m guessing that’s corydalis in bud on the right. Annie in the comments says the blue flowers look like Chionodoxa (Glory of the Snow). I think she’s right.
Crocus (note the pollinator) and primula
Have to go back to my bulb purchasing receipts to ID the one on the left (Annies says it’s Puschkinia, which I do recall ordering), and a hellebore
Various hellebores
Snowdrops peaking and maybe an aquilegia emerging.
And as a bonus, more of those primulas. (And many more primulas to come in the coming weeks.)
