I am really liking the iris reticulata I planted last fall. They are a nice early bloom to have and first thing in the spring I am always looking for something that will bloom. These are blooming before most of my crocus as only some early species crocus are open for me. (Golden bunch only opened today).

I am plotting where I want to plant more of the iris reticulata. I am also thinking they would look really nice mixed in with some early crocus. Need to think about what color combos I want to create.

The iris reticulata patch today.
Bright and sunny today so lots more blooms had opened.




Crocus Golden Bunch are really small.


This species crocus in the front yard is so pretty.

Wow, those iris reticulata sure are pretty!!

I love them. And they bloom extra early, before the crocus even. This is my first year with them and I plan on planting more this fall. They are bulbs.

What brilliant colors! Must be extra nice after all that white stuff.

I have so many bulbs that I planted last fall and I can't wait to se them all bloom. Mostly crocus, tulips and daffodils.

OH WOW !!!!! at least we had a beautiful day to day sun shine and all

Rita: Wow ! Such an intense vibrant blue !!!

Thanks, I do love that color!

HOLY CATS I went out side for a walk around and theres all kinds of things coming up under the leaves the daffodils are about 5 inches tall !! kind of a pale green but a little sun tomorrow will fix that !

Today I cleaned out all my birdhouses so that the birds can pick whichever one they want when they look this spring. Chicadees and House Wrens usually nest in them.

Then I planted four large pots of Sugar Lace II snap peas. I had peas in these pots last fall. I have found that peas do really well in large pots. I still have seeds left of the Sugar Lace so I will probably plant another pot or two, Not today though. I have decided I will place my Cascadia snap peas in ground, maybe I will do that tomorrow. And I watered the Super Sugar Snap peas I planted last week.

I was out and about the garden doing spring cleanup so carefully looking at things and tulip bulbs are comming up all over the place. I have never had so many tulips as I am going to have this year. So excited about that and can't wait for blooms.

Bulbapalooza!

porkpal said:Bulbapalooza!

For sure. I planted 4.999 bulbs. Tulips. daffs and crocus mostly.

I planted asparagus a couple of days ago, a friend gave me about 30 large corms that she got from a neighbor, I only planted half of them and shared the remainder with two others friends, one of them is taking her batch home to Montana. (they stay here during the winter months)
I didn't take my camera out today but I have my first rose of the season blooming, Joseph's Coat, a nice bright spot of color in the garden. I also have two dwarf iris blooming today, Cocoa Pink, always the first one to bloom

and Jazzamatazz:

as well as a Pacific Coast Iris, 'Deep Blue Sea'

I am planting peas again today. Changed my mind and decided to plant the Cascada peas in four pots I have instead of that in ground spot. Instead I will plant some Norli snaps in ground. I thought I had those seeds and checked this morning and I did. I had planted the Norli in pots last fall, didn't think they produced well at all. Maybe they will be better in ground. Will plant those this afternoon. Meantime I planted four more pots already. I thought I had Cascada seeds but after I was finished I look at the bags (left over from last fall) and I see that they are not snap peas, Cascada or otherwise. They are Mammouth Melting Snow peas. Oh well. I like snow peas, grew them last year. So now I have four pots of snow peas planted. That will be it for snow peas for me this spring. I guess I will just put the rest of those Sugar Lace II snap peas I have in those last two big pots. Not today, I want to get this Norli peas planted in ground. They are shap peas.

Back inside for the day. Really tired as I have been working out in the garden these past few days and then afterward still doing my Gazelle machine workout as I am on a weight loss kick and have more weight still to loose. Don't know how much I will get done as I used up my energy out in the garden.

Working out in the garden today I see so many places where I could (and should) plant crocus as they would look so nice. Not that I didn't plant crocus last fall, I planted about 1,150. And I thought I did well at that number. But looking around it is apparent to me that I would need 5,000 more (yes 5,000) to plant them in most of the spots I think should have them.

I put 500 of those crocus I planted (large flowered mix) in the Southside rose garden and afterward I saw where the squirrels had been digging them up. But I thought they couldn't have gotten them all. Well, so far very, very, very few have come up there. I planted crocus in other places around the garden but apparently the squirrells left them alone and just had a feast with the ones in the roses garden. Drats! My plan was for all those crocus to look stunning before the roses leafed out.

So I will be ordering another batch of the same and replanting in the roses garden. I wonder what I can do to keep the squirrels away from them this time around?

Happy Easter Everyone!

Just catching up here. After 2 days of 80 degree weather, we're back to the high 50's and low night time temps. The two warm days got everything jump started ahead. We'll see what the low temps will to to all that new growth.