Posted on Apr 16, 2020 7:12 AMI went for a stroll early this morning making a loop around the gardens closest to the house. It sure is chilly out there. The weather is such a tease in spring with glorious days of sunshine and mild temps for a stretch and then bam, right back to those 30 degree days again. Mid April is the prettiest time of year in my garden. There is still a lot of winter cleanup to do, but there are more blooms this time of year than in any other.
There are a lot of daffodils blooming, this is a sampling.
I've been getting tulip bulbs in boxes of 50 at a wholesale price with our MA fall bulb buy. I had been planting them in the Side Yard Spring Bulb Bed to duplicate a design idea I saw on Pinterest, but I've discovered that tulips are basically annuals here and the deer often eat the blooms. This is a blog post of the tulip extravaganza in 2015. None of those tulips perennialized and I finally decided to give up on the mass planting of tulips there and replicate the concept with hyacinths instead.
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I love tulips though so this year I planted tulips in pots on the back patio and will treat it as an annual display vs the in ground perennial concept that just hasn't been working. I did try a much smaller tulip planting of 'Lady Jane' at the base of a viburnum carlesii this year hoping that they would bloom at the same time, but the viburnum has already finished blooming just as the tulips are starting. Some ideas work as planned, others don't.
Early spring blooms. Need to open the thumbnails to see the blooms clearly. The blooms featured include summer snowflake, fringed bleeding heart, pulmonaria, jacobs ladder, solomons seal, primula, phlox divaricata, shooting star, old fashioned bleeding heart, brunnera, ...
I don't know exactly why, but this shredded umbrella plant is a favorite of mine. I purchased a single plant from a regional plant sale years ago and it is one of the plants I specifically look for emergence each spring. I am so thrilled that it is starting to make a little colony.
