Foto fun wknd pics...April 27-28

[plantdoctor]

I am anxious to see what everyone has to share this weekend.

I have tulips starting to bloom and the daffs are still hanging in there.  The early tulips are the ones in full sun.

[mnwildflowers]

Charlene-You have some lovely tulips. I have a few buds so we’ll see. 

A few sunny spot daffs open and the hyacinths are just starting. A couple narcissi. The squill are still holding on.  

[marnee]

Beautiful blooms Charlene and Melissa.

I went out and took a few pictures on this cloudy rainy day.

My pink Azalea is fading and my red Azalea is almost in full bloom.

 Red Azalea bush.
 

Rhododendron blooms.
 
Snowball bush and blooms.

Lithodora in my tree stump planter.

[luvmyb_b]

 Have I shared these forget-me-nots yet this year? I don't think so, but if I did, I apologize. I love these little beauties. We brought some from our old house over 20 years ago which had reseeded from a neighbor's patch. I have moved them around and still have a bit to enjoy. They can keep reseeding all they want. I'll never have too many of them.  


 A closeup of one of my Korean hyssops blooming in the house. 


 This was taken on the 24th. Today there are a few more in bloom. 

Charlene, since I have so few spring blooming bulbs I am really enjoying yours. Very pretty and inspiring. 

The same is true of your pretties, Melissa. I'm using them as motivation to make sure I buy bulbs this fall. 

As much as I like your azaleas, rhododendron, and snowball bush, Mary M., I am even more enchanted by your stump planter. Wow! 

[grandmazn8]

All so pretty.

Foxgloves are opening more. Wish there were more, or at least that the ones in this bed weren't spread out. But since I didn't plant all of them I take what I get.

[flowerpowerz5]

Pretty blooms this week. I don't have anything new. Maybe next week.

[Gayle]

Leslie, your Foxglove are blooming already!! Mine are 6" high & still in the GH.  I have one survivor of the yard scraping from last yr , but it is nowhere near blooming size.

My Spring blooms are done & others just starting, most of which are buried in grass & weeds.

Columbine

This bed hasn't been cleaned up yet but the Anemone are blooming.

And I have Vinca vine growing in several spots in the woods where I have dumped pots. This always makes me wonder why I bother putting them in the GH over the Winter.

[hopscotch]

Gayle, I have vinca growing in front of the house that have been there several years.  Right now, they are blooming some.

Really like all the flowers everybody has.

Leroy

[akajoan]

What pretty blooms everyone has.  Like Sandy, we have nothing new blooming here also.  Quite a few are almost there, but with the colder, rainier (and snow flurries) weather we had last week, the gardens are still the same.  I did buy some hellebores on Friday, and will share the one in bloom next week-none of the three varieties we already had are even close to blooming.
Joan

[grandmazn8]

Gayle, these have been growing for several years and most haven't bloomed before now. I imagine these will die later this year but there is a clump of tiny volunteers that I need to thin/move that may give me flowers next year. The seeds from one last year fell in the same spot and all sprouted.

[pippin3]

Gorgeous Red Azalea bush and am fascinated by your stump plant, Marnee.
Love all of the flowers.

[marnee]

Apr 28, 2024 9:01:59 GMT -5 pippin3 said:

Gorgeous Red Azalea bush and am fascinated by your stump plant, Marnee.
Love all of the flowers.

Thanks Linda, hummingbirds are supposed to love Azaleas but as my Azaleas are in the front yard and I can't see them from the house I have never seen a hummer on them.  My hummers are showing up again, I posted a photo on Friday's picture thread of one of them using the new mini hummingbird feeder. Yesterday I bought couple salvia plants and need to get more of them. The ones I got only had a couple red blooms and I did see a hummer check them out a couple of times.

My tree stump planted has been around for years. In the late 70s we had a evergreen tree about 80 or 90 feet tall with two trunks. We had a three day ice storm that sheared off all of the branches on one side of both trunks. What a mess my yard was in and it was at that time necessary to remove the trees. Any way over the years the middle of the trunks rotted out and I started fill them with soil. I loved the  Lithodora my niece has in their backyard so a few years ago I planted some lithodora in the stump. 

This last winter weather was really hard on the lithodora and many of the leaves turned back.  I should have removed any blacken  leaves early spring. I thought I had lost the plants and before I could do anything they starting blooming. The flowers are really a brighter blue than they show up on my pictures.