Here is a photo dump of recent blooming plants in the garden and greenhouse.
Common violet–so easy to take them for granted, but they are generous of flower and interesting of foliage.My Veltheimia bracteata is blooming in the greenhouse. Due to their intricate structure, the flowers are almost as beautiful in the bud state as they are fully bloomed.Tulips have been budding and blooming quickly in the last two weeks, elegant in all stages.First hybrid tulip bloom.And it was sunny enough to look inside!Plum blossoms.Lots of Pleione blooms in the greenhouse! I am relieved. The rats were eating the pseudobulbs pretty regularly, and I thought there might be none left!Phlox cuttings taken in late March. They wilted right away, but luckily it rained a bit and they are recovering. There are 24 cuttings, 6 each in four gallon-sized pots.Narcissus hybrid forced in pots in the greenhouse. These have lasted a few weeks now, and the fragrance is sweet but subtle.Masdevallias blooming in the greenhouse.Hyacinths have been surprisingly perennial in the memory garden. I have an odd mix of colors. I think of them as festive rather than chaotic.Forsythia in front of the orchard garden. This plant is painfully yellow, but there is a grace in the way the flowers hang from the stems that gets overlooked in the glare.Oregano in the veggie garden–the foliage makes charming patterns.Fritillaria raddeana is a naughty ornamental in the native plant garden. Euphorbia blooming in the memory garden in the rain. Easter cactus just a week or two early.Mom’s cymbidium, gifted to me by brother Tim many moons ago. This cultivar never fails to produce a few scapes of phenomenal blooms.Corydalis in the memory garden. Early, short, and sweet–they only last two weeks, and the plants disappear shortly after. They are reliable, though, and thoroughly perennial here, but nonspreading.Corylopsis blooms in the front of the orchard garden. Lighter and more demure than the forsythia next door, this shrub has healthy but fairly uninteresting foliage.Clematis bud–one of thousands on our back fence. We should have a great show this year.Iberis blooming in the memory garden.White arabis blooming in the memory garden.
