Yesterday it drizzled.
Pachysandra procumbens



Mushrooms on an old Trex board laying around





This is my new friend who decided it is fun to play drumrolls on the chimney cap. It is loud enough outside but at least twice as loud traveling through the ducts. Every day now.


Skunk Cabbage at the park.

Here's the one labeled Golden Lotus.

A few blooms I found today.

I've been so busy this time of year, I haven't had time to appreciate the blooms which are popping up all over the place! Here are some from the past couple of days, in no particular order.
Tetraneuris herbacea



Aquilegia flabellata Nana



Erysimum pulchellum



Phlox subulata North Hills


Veronica petraea Mme Mercier


Rampant buttercups with scattered patches of white blooms and double forms





Other 'weeds' are looking good, too (ajuga & celandine poppy)





Virginia bluebells just starting to open



Burkwood viburnum - not as fragrant as V. carlesii, but still nice


A bunch of epimediums, most of which have lost their ID tags. The first is a form of E. x sulphureum. The 2nd, not sure of ID





My alltime fave anemone, A apennina Plena.
It's not fully open yet, but it's pretty at all stages.



I've never been able to grow primulas until the introduction of the Belarina series. They are totally reliable for me. 1st up is Lively Lilac, 2nd is Amethyst Ice




Omphalodes verna


Dicentra eximia just starting to bloom


Aubrieta x Axcent Deep Purple



Cymbalaria aequitriloba, most of which died back this winter but a small patch survives.



Anemonella thalictroides Shoaf's Double



Double bloodroot



Pulmonaria



Finally, this is a seedling of my favorite peony - P. wittmanniana. Blooms are beautiful, but unfortunately the show is over in about a week.



Sorry I got a little carried away. I'll blame it on a bad case of spring fever.

Very nice Scott , way ahead of my area where most are just starting to break ground.

The empty lot across the street has a better garden than I could ever purposely cultivate. Any day now, it will get mowed.

Glandularia (Verbena), red clover & black medic.

Awesome spring blooms gang

Looks like a meadow, Tiff. So sad that it will get mowed down.

Scott,😍 love your plant collection. As Bob said, you are way ahead of us.

It's OK, it will look the same next spring. Those things are about finished blooming for the year. : )

'Snaptini' dwarf snapdragons that lived outside through the winter, at times, down to 20°.

I like those colors.

This fabulous Ajuga I brought home about a year ago.


'Heirloom' rose, brought home in November. The first bloom is just starting to open and smells SOOOO good!


Streptocarpella is like fireworks


Ranunculus asiaticus.


A pot of cute little 'Francesco Baldi' succulents.

So much spring color! Lovely 💜

Bob, did you feel the earthquake?

Trillium showing a red bloom

A visitor to one of my hellebores

Epimedium blooms

Bleeding Hearts (not sure what variety this one is)

I started getting epimediums by mail order from Garden Vision Epimediums in 2015 and I made a second purchase a few years later. I made a special garden area for them that I named the Epimedium Walk, but even though epimediums like shade, the garden was situated in too much shade for them to thrive.

When I found out that Karen was retiring and that I had one last chance to visit her place, I took a road trip to Massachusetts in the spring of 2022. I saw first hand the conditions that she had hers growing in - shade, but on the edge of the wood line where it opens up into cleared areas.

I made a huge purchase while there, getting as many different cultivars as I could, knowing that I wouldn't have anywhere near the variety to choose from after that. She has listed other sellers of epimediums, but just as I thought, none with the extensive selections that she had always offered.

Well, when I got home from that trip I put those small epimediums into the new window boxes on the back patio that I was intending to use for lettuce. It was supposed to just be a "temporary" holding space until I could make a more suitable garden area for the collection. Here it is two years later and they are still in there. Must be over 20 of them in their little pots but they are alive and some are blooming. Thank goodness the id tags are still intact. I finally have a garden area shaping up for them, so this will be the year to get them in the ground and also to relocate the ones that I already have.

The hardy waterlily that I overwintered in the greenhouse is blooming. It probably would have been fine outside, but the basin that it lives in is concrete and it would have frozen and cracked, so I had to put the waterlily in a temporary bin anyway.

Terri, I love epimediums. I never made it to Garden Visions, but I have bought from Karen at the NARGS sale at Stonecrop Gardens in NY. Last year, I made sure to try to get some of her Jeffersonia Dubia Dark Centers. She was able to bring 2 and they have sprouted again this year.

Beautiful, Rose! I love the trillium leaves.

I'm not sure who told me about Garden Visions. I bought some from her the last year she open. I wish I would've known about her sooner. They're hard to find.

A nursery sort of near me got some nice ones in. They run $24 each. I bought a few today for a garden I am helping with plus a couple for myself. I am tempted to go back.

We felt it here, shook the building I work at .. At home they thought a car hit the house between the shaking and the noise.