Little Blooms - GBBD

You have to get up close to see most of the things blooming in my garden right now. I have no idea what this plant is. I don't remember planting it but I left it when I did the early weeding. After last night's rain and with the wind blowing today I wasn't able to get a very good picture. Am I nurturing another weed? If so it's ok, it's a cute little flower.


Trillium is my favorite spring flower. Several of the white one are still blooming but the red seem to be done.


I don't know what these shrubs are. They grow wild at the edge of the property. South of here I've seen the white ones blooming. I have both white and pink budding now. One of these has self seeded in the nightmare bed willow bed and I've decided to leave it for the birds and the butterflies.


The forsythia is almost done. It used to cover most of the western property line but the neighbors wanted it gone because it attracted bees :(


This redbud will be done soon. It isn't actually mine but I get to enjoy it anyway.


Other blooms:

• Lungwort
• Bleedinghearts
  
• Azalea
  
• Violets
• Pansies
• Fushia
• Impatients
• Forget-me-nots
• Periwinkle
• Spurge
• Strawberries
  

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Plant Swap

Our garden club had the spring plant exchange Wednesday night. I traded bee balm, blanket flower, foxglove and daylilies for these:
Variegated Miscanthus, Golden glow aka outhouse flower, Forget-me-nots and two that nobody could tell me the names of. I'll plant them and see what happens. I also got some bare root geraniums and some type of oriental lily. The fuchsia was onsale at the local discount grocery store. I love fuchsia but I almost always kill it. After reading this by Kerri I decided to try again this year.

The group also donated these plants for the bus fund-raiser.

The speaker Wednesday talked about Boldt Castle and the landscaping there. He brought a bleeding heart and told a story where he took a flower apart little by little to illustrate the story. My teeny-tiny plants have just started giving me teeny-tiny blooms this week. I haven't taken a Thousand Islands boat tour in years. After his talk I think I may just have to check out all of the improvements that have been made in the last few years.

Blooms!

I have flowers blooming at at last! My tulips are out. I also have violets that are blooming and the Spurge Apple showed you in her "A Little Behind" post.

One of my favorite plants are the bleeding harts. I have two of these and marvel at how delicate the flowers are.

Another of my favorites are forget me nots. I don't see them in many gardens but they remind me of being a kid. Mom didn't have many flowers around the house when we were growing up but she did have forget me nots. I am trying to get a mass planting of them but they don't seem to spread for me. I tried sowing seeds outside in the spring twice with no luck. If anyone has any ideas I would love the input! I may try seeds inside after I get the ones I already started planted. Apple was telling me as long as I get things planted in advance of the first frost, I will be OK. It's worth a try! I can not even believe I am talking about the the first frost already! Yikes!