Gardening Flowers & Foliage

Keep posting pics!! All I see are snow banks

 

After this upcoming week with the big thaw (40s-50s) I suspect the skunk cabbage will start poking out of the ground in the swampy areas.

 

Me too - although mine aren't as tall as yours

I'm just hoping it will get warm enough that my roof dumps since I haven't had a clear roof since February 5th with the frequent snowfalls. I'm also hoping I can beat some of the ice off my driveway.

 

The Hollies are infested with robins this morning

 

Persian ironwood is blooming

 

38* and 30 mph south wind, right up driveway..
Are acting like mother nature hair dryer

… it is gravel

 

Yoshinos should pop today

 

Daphne

 

Blowing leaves across the yard and noticed these.

 

Spring is coming

 

We have a few blooms showing up down here...
Plum trees and forsythia
Pink camellia
Another shrub

 

The early bloomers have arrived! The Hellebores should keep blooming for at least the next six weeks or longer then they continue adding more foliage all summer long into late fall. They are becoming one of our favorites because not much grows good here that the deer don't eat and need very little sun.

Mini Iris


Two different Hellebores

 

Are those really a mini iris? They look more like something that comes from a bulb instead of a rhizome to me. And it seems just a bit early in the season. But IDK, lots of plans/flowers that I haven't seen (or don't remember seeing ).

And after typing that, I did a Google search and see that the Iris reticulata is a very early blooming iris and is bulbous, so I learned something today

 

Hawthorn spikes

 

My wife says they are mini Iris, so mini iris it is LOL. I just Googled and found Iris Reticulata dwarf. Here is a better but not so good pic I took today.

 

Yep, definitely an iris from that picture . I guess I was thinking more of the German type iris yesterday which have the sword type leaves. Probably not enough coffee.

 

Baby Shagbark

 

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