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pyraxis ([personal profile] pyraxis) wrote2023-05-17 02:47 pm
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Spring flowers!

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.

A cluster of three white daffodils amidst woodchips, with a couple grape hyacinths with tiny lavender flowers peeking out from behind.

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

Two clusters of tulips in a bed of volcanic rock pieces, one yellow and red, and the other yellow and faded red with feathery edges to the petals.

A square photo of a single red tulip with a frill of yellow around the edge of each petal.

A square photo of two yellow tulips with streaky orange centres.

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.

Deep red-purple irises in a bed of wood chips.

These are globe flowers from the back flower bed.

Yellow flowers with thick clusters of petals shaped like a ball, feathering out like a rose.

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.

A pansy plant with pale violet flowers with a dark purple, yellow and white star in the centre.

Two small pansy plants side by side, one with white flowers and one with orange.

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