I picked up two Pandora's Box at a local nursery yesterday.

Gentle Giant with hail damage🥲

Hail damage isn't as bad as I expected. Tonight is supposed to get down to near freezing. Lots of challenges in my gardens this spring.

I forgot to show you my Bloodline from the other day!

Weather has been a bit all over the place this past week. Your Bloodline is getting some nice color , will have to go check up on mine.

Cool this week, currently 30 and light snow, some hostas are up slightly, afraid I may have a lot of vole damage.

I need to get pictures of my hostas. I have some that are almost full size and some that are just barely peeking above ground. I actually had to dig around on some a couple weeks ago just to make sure they were alive since I have some going gangbusters already. Had to do the samw with my roses too, same story. Really weird Spring this year.

I call this my "Hot Legs' section. Here you see 'First Blush' x3 as well as 'Red October'. Also in this section but not in the picture there is 'Gooseberry Sundae', 'Raspberry Sundae' and 'Red Stilts'.

My favourite spring beacon: 'Dawn's Early Light'!

I went to my friend's nursery yesterday and did not come home empty handed!
Lipstick Blonde

Alvatine Taylor

Green Army Man

Jabulani

Lakeside Butterball

Lakeside Dragonfly

Hide and Seek

First Blush


Here's some that I noticed this morning while strolling through my garden
Touch of Class

War Paint I'm really excited to see this one survived. I found just two tiny leaves on it two years ago. Repotted it and planted it last fall.

Gunther's Prize only one eye this year. I'm glad I ordered one from Brian White this year to replace it.

Calm Before the Storm


Sting that I received from The Happy Hosta last week.

I noticed a few days ago that one of my big 'Striptease' was showing signs of sporting. I'd seen something on it last year and this year it seems to have somewhat spread, so, time to uplift the plant and divide it. Time will tell how this will stabilize...

Looks great! No voles with pots!!

Sir Prize

Looks nice Rose , mine has not unfurled yet.

crawgarden said: Looks great! No voles with pots!!

Thanks Rj. Voles aren't much of a problem here anyway, our major nuisance rodents are rats....

Did anyone else have Mito no Hana ordered from Brian White? He lost all of them this winter so I guess I'm not going to get one of those.

No I did not , but you did remind me to contact him about Collector's Banner.

He just contacted me and also lost all of the Collector's Banner.

Pieter, that sporting looks delightful!

I got some new Hostas. I now have five Hosta varieties!

Did my first roll call of my hostas on Sunday. Of 224 plants, 75% have shown themselves. And I've found another since when I looked at the last picture I took last autumn. I had gotten it out of a pot and into the garden, but hadn't recorded where I put it. A handful are definitely not up yet, but they are mostly traditional late comers. The rest, are unknown because I can't yet walk far enough into the gardens to look for them w/o risk to emerging plants or because they are under leaves that haven't yet been raked out or under crocus foliage where I won't see them until they get a bit bigger. And it keeps raining. I'm not complaining as we need it - didn't have much snow this year, but it sure puts a damper on getting out there.

Grey Ghost

Four streaked seedlings from Micheal Giese (The Hosta Stop)

First Blush

Praying Hands

Heavenly Tiara

Runt

White Feather is starting out green🤬

Have to look for my White Feather , don't think I saw it.