It really has been a strange winter. No snow and overly warm winter here. Daffs started very early here also.

Same here. Things are quite early and no winter at all, it seemed.

Very Beautiful Chelle!! How old is your tree? mine is only three. I will get a picture of the whole thing later, it's not quite filled out yet.

Yes things are blooming earlier for me in my zone 5b. I never had hyacinth and daffodils blooming before mid-April before as well as the forsythia and hellebores. It got to 80º here a couple of times I planted a Weeping Cherry last May and it is full bloom now also. I think my magnolia is even going to grace me with flowers this year. Sure looks like white buds on there. I planted in June of last year a Flowering Quince 'Texas Scarlet' and it has reddish orange buds forming. I won't complain. I love the colors I am seeing now.......

Just a few of what I am seeing here.




The sweet violet didn't want to stay in the bed. That one pic is under the clothes line in the lawn.




Blooming in beds I haven't evven got to, to clean out yet.

Weeping cherry

Flowering Quince 'Texas Scarlet'

This is what we had the first two or three days of March.............

Wow, Cece! What a difference a few weeks have made.

Your gardens are just beautiful.

Love all your crocus and the Hellebore bed is wonderful!!

virginiarose said: How old is your tree?

It's been planted for probably a dozen years, give or take. I wanted to shape it a bit as it grew, but mom wanted it to grow up as fast as possible. It did.

I like it in front of the dark evergreens, otherwise those light-colored blooms might fade away into the sky.

CherieCoogan said:

Lovely patch of violets...I just love them, whether they roam, or not.

Very nice flowers Cece, love your weeping cherry and texas quincy my mother had one and they are big and bright. For you the March weather was actually typical, 'In like a Lion and out like a Lamb.'

beautiful.
Celle,I have been to upper Mi. for years. That hotel is magnificent. I stopped going in 1996. I used to spend some time on Beaver Island.Loce Michigan.

What pretty pictures.

I don't have that much blooming this early, and what has bloomed hardly lasted any time at all in the unusual heat. My weeping cherry was beautiful- for 2 days. Crocus lasted about 2 days too. Temps were in the mid 80s, and I guess it was just too hot for them.

Cooler air came back Thursday- complete with storms. With the flower petals flying - mostly from all the Bradford pears in the area- it looked more like snow than rain. The tree flowers will likely be gone (from all the rain and wind) today or tomorrow . And the pollen counts have been astronomical.

Karen

The Bradford Pear trees are disappearing in this neighborhood. I think the developer planted 1 on eash lot. They have rotted in the past 20 years and now come crashing down on cars in driveways and in peoples lawns. Neighbor across the street was comming home after a party and his tree split in half just as he walked up his driveway. It missed him and gave us firewood for last winter.

Oh my lots of beautiful photos of beautiful blooms...Yards and gardens are all looking great...

Those Bradford pear..Yes the landscapers put those in and they are gorgous,but very very SHORT LIVED...house down the road Had 6...no more, another house has at least 12 down the drive ,they have a few more years,till they are gone...kinda sad People just dont know how Icky they are,and the Landscapers love to sell them,to unsuspecting. are they the one in the same that are considered invasive too ??? I do see them growing in our ditches,blooming now and beautiful...

Boy did we get the rain yesterday..buckets...wetlands full..Oh man its dismal and gray today ....We were soo spoiled this past few weeks...

cece love the fire pit area looks great,very professional ,what is your base material ??? crushed granite ?

stil didn get photos ,I got rained out...

A few garden shots from today

Jo Ann your place looks wonderful ,I love shade areas,and the little slopes,I like wandering flow...Nice

Those are the new slope gardens. All I need to do now is weed-weed-weed Its full of some sort of nasty vine and poison ivey plus some sort ofgarlicmustard.

The vinca are simply covered in blooms this year - my favorite ground cover.






This pear, 'Cleveland Select', seems to be a pretty nice cultivar. Its crotch branching seems to be better than Bradford, and its blooms are lovely. Ours is very young yet - this is its first year for flowers.






Ack! - poison ivy. I use two sticks together like chopsticks to pull those...I'm afraid of it.

I'll be missing in action for a few days. Brother has been given 6-9 months to live. Cancer is nasty.

I'm so sorry CeCe. Take care of yourself, too.

Karen

Cece.

Janice

Bradford Pear is very weak tree, When a storm comes it tears them up. Cleveland pear is much better. Love the flowers on that Cleveland Select, love the vinca also.

Very nice Landscape Jo Ann.