Spring flowers!

[pyraxis]

It's been an unusually hot spring. We had a few weeks of snowmelt and temperatures rising to 10C or so, and then a heat wave hit 30C and it's been summer since.

The daffodils and crocuses didn't like it. I planted a row of purple crocuses down the front path last fall and none of them have flowered. There are only a few yellow daffodils, and the only star is a cluster of white daffodils I also put in last fall, that came out brilliantly.



The tulips haven't been too pleased with the heat either, but there are a few that have flowered well.







This was a huge patch of irises that has expanded over the past four years. Last fall I split them up into a few new locations and I was hoping for purple irises all over the garden, but I think they need some more time to get established. Only the original patch and one other are producing buds so far.



These are globe flowers from the back flower bed.



Another cool thing are the pansies. There's now a white and orange plant that survives the winter, to go alongside the indomitable yellow pansy. Because they've done so well in the front path bed with the heavy mulch, I got a cluster of new pansies in a purple, yellow and white mix to go in a row along the path. Here's one of them.

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[silk_dragon_zen]

What a lovely garden!!! 💗💕

— Sage

[pyraxis]

Thank you!

[tigerweave]

I finally get to see this post in it's proper colour. We have a night time light thingie and every time I went to read it it was late and the colours were weird.

Omg those pansies! We all adore pansies. We have a few violas at the moment but they are not really good here. Granny used to grow them.

Interesting about the irises not blooming yet. All the bulbs we grow here seem to need to be a certain size to bloom, which can take them a few years. Even our rain lillies which are small, are starting to flower a bit, over a year and a half since I first planted them as bulbs from a friend's mum's garden.

Aren't the tulips adorable with that fringing?

Also I really love those white daffies. and theyre so tough!

They do grow here but I think you have to give them a fake winter in the fridge. I've never tried. But I have a tuberose! I can't get over how it just keeps flowering now it's decided to start. Wow! They are one of those that need to be big enough to start flowering. Mine have been planted 2 yrs ago. In pots but I recently put some of the plants in the ground. They weren't happy in the pots and positions they were in.

Oh wow! I do love your flowers! And the green flower. That's totally cool!

I suppose it's all different again now? or has the season and the plants growing not changed much yet?

[pyraxis]

Here, we get wild violets in a couple places in the yard, like in the corner by the back shed and the side gate. Tiny little purple things that are so low to the ground you can run the lawnmower over them without hurting them. Which is good because the dandelions are a plague of hydras this time of year. A tasty plague (hi Dar!) but a plague nonetheless.

It's late spring now so a lot of them are different. The daffodils and tulips and hyacinths are faded, but the pansies are going strong. I got two different varieties, a tall one and a smaller one. The tall ones keep wilting for lack of water but the small ones are doing great. We did end up getting irises all over the place! It's wonderful, all but one of the little clusters I split off has at least one flower.

The lilies are coming up like crazy too. It's too early for them to flower but a bunch of the ones I transplanted have taken the opportunity to split off a bunch of new little stems. Makes me think I should transplant them more often.

I have a few new things that I'm trying as well, like a peony out front that's starting to get buds, and dahlia tubers that haven't come up from the soil yet, and something whose name I can't remember which is sending up a bunch of single stems in a row.

I never heard of tuberose but I googled it and it's really pretty! Is yours white?

[pyraxis]

Oh and I forgot the anemones and columbines, which are late spring flowers and starting to come out too.