Dirt, That is beautiful.Those wide shots with carpets of color are fantastic.
I love the patterned leaves of the early tulips.

What is the plant you say is "looking rough,but working on a flower"?

Very nice photos and nice work, dirtdorphins.

SongofJoy said:Very nice photos and nice work, dirtdorphins.

Dirt, what are the blue flowers in the last row of photos on the left?, they are very pretty.

Fantastic, Dirt! Thanks for posting those.

Dirt ....

What wonderful photos ! Yeah, you are going to have to give us the names of your beauties. I am thinking I can plant some of them in my rock borders.








Or in the rock garden I have to create because Frank-the-con dumped a lot of large rocks down in one of my street beds.









Yup ... I've got lots and lots of rocks ... plant names, please ????

Smiles,
Lyn

PS ... I've got some bulbs coming up, too. I'll get photos, if it ever stops raining !

CarolineScott said:What is the plant you say is "looking rough,but working on a flower"?

Hi Caroline,
The rough looking one initially, is this one:

mcash70 said:


Dirt, what are the blue flowers in the last row of photos on the left?, they are very pretty.

All, and Tee and Margaret,

That is a plant that I purchased as Aubrieta canescens ssp canescens...
I find it to be different from the various Aubrieta deltoidea that I have growing in other locations (the dark purple above with the tulip, for example), but the database lists them all as synonyms.
I have a lot of pics of this one most of them blurry, but here are a few more

First flower

With slush

Recovered nicely

Thanks dirt, they are really lovely, I must have been seeing blue this morning, tonight they look purple, my eyes are very old.

Until spring comes for the rest of us, here's a preview from the great Ian Young:

http://www.srgc.net/forum/inde...

Not anything to crow about, but this is my first bloom from seed. I had forgotten about them until very very late in the fall, and I wasn't sure how they would react planted so late. I still have some in a pot, too.
Eranthis hyemalis

hey, that *is* something to crow about!

Always exciting!

I'm really, really excited this morning!! One of my 2014 seed started alpines, living now in the rock garden, is making bloom buds! It's tempered by the fact that I evidently switched tags on it, so I don't know what it is at the moment, but it's exciting nonetheless! This will be a first for me!

Here's its picture now. I have it marked as a draba, but ...maybe it is and will look much different later? I dunno.

Thats whats so great about gardening, always questions and the need for patience.

Congratulations (whatever it it turns out to be)!

Thanks! We may get cold enough to frost this week, but I doubt it'll hurt it. I'd think if it's engineered to bloom this early, it should be very tolerant. I'll hope so anyway!

You don't have to worry about frosts at all. And probably not even down to 20°F.

That's what I like to hear!

Thanks Rick.