Spring flowers!
May. 17th, 2023 02:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pyraxisIt'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.
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.
