Prairie Fire is beautiful. I planted one at my previously place and loved it. I don't think those are phlox as the foliage doesn't look right and tall phlox usually blooms in summer, not spring. I think that is Blue Star Flower
Thanks. It's getting brighter as it keeps blooming Yeah I wasn't sure what that might be near the creek. I only see it this time of year so I thought it might be phlox. Here's a young Showtime Crabapple starting to bloom. I can't wait for this tree to get bigger. It has the best colors for crabapples in my opinion. Light pink and red leaves.
More flowers in the beauty spot are beginning to bloom... Azaleas are starting to show The snowballs will be exploding soon.
I like that hummingbird shepherd's hook. That gave me a great idea for a Mother's Day gift for my wife.
More blooms on this Showtime Crabapple. I really love this tree. A very young Royal Raindrops crabapple Pink weeping Cherry Not sure which variety daffodils these are but they're blooming after the yellow ones have withered away.
Thanks They're late...and early... Usually several of them are at this stage in mid-late March, but more middle of the month, so they're late in that respect. They're early in the sense that they usually stay in the "tight cluster" and "pink" stages a little longer once they start to show. This year they've reached those stages and are rapidly opening instead of slooooooowly opening like they usually do. I take pictures for that reason, to kind of keep track of when they bloom year to year. They're all still pretty young though, and I still have no idea what I'm doing.
I know next to nothing about growing apples myself (cut my one prairie fire crabapple down this past fall) But it looks like you're off to a good start with the pollinators already visiting your trees.
I'm hoping the rhodies aren't broken under all that weight. They are normally 12' or taller, now they are about 6' tall (pic taken at 6pm) . The only good thing in this picture is the power lines, especially the one leading to the house, finally shed all their snow. Crabapple got abused too but it finally shed most of the snow in the afternoon (pic taken at10:30 am). Birds were everywhere and I took pity on them by feeding them 3 times yesterday instead of just in the morning that I normally do. As an interesting (to me) exercise, I went back to look for pictures of the rhodies to compare. Ran across snow laden shrubs from 2022 (and they have gotten taller since then since I don't prune them back)
Looking back earlier in this thread I see foxgloves. I haven't had any luck with them. I love how they look. I'll be digging up some hostas tomorrow from friends that are moving. I think I'll try some foxglove where I plant those hostas.
They don't normally survive where I plant them, but they pop up where I don't plant them. Until I started seeing them in the line of trees at the edge of the property, they really seem to like it there. Don't ask me where these came from - this all started from one yellow one that I planted back there because I had nowhere else to put it. Then other colors started appearing. None of the ones I planted in the dedicated shade garden seem to have put (pics from last year). These are Biennial which means the parent plants don't survive overly long - first year is growth, second year they flower and put out seeds, then that is it for that plant (I think - maybe they live another year or two). So, you need to plant a couple of years in a row to get yearly flowers. Don't pull the first year plants thinking they are weeds (which I'm sure I've done). Don't remove the seed heads until they have opened and distributed seeds (or collect the sees to plant where you want them. If you let them self-sow, they won't stay where you've planted them (which makes it even easier to pull first year plants by mistake).
