The warm spring weather continutes, and a few more flowers have started blooming during this past week in the garden. The yellow forsythia shrubs are also coming into bloom. The deer are serious pests this year and have eaten the buds on my hydrangeas and almost all the leaves off several evergreen shrubs. What they haven’t eaten, they have trampled down. Here are a few flowers they’ve missed:
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It’s way too early for the Creeping Phlox, but it’s blooming anyway.
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The Flowering Quince has a few flowers. It always blooms sparsely, don’t think it likes our mild winters and it probably doesn’t get enough sun.
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Grecian Windflowers (Anemone blanda) are blooming.
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The small daffodils are now starting to bloom in the edge of the woods. The larger flowered early daffs have been in bloom for a couple weeks now.
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The little irises are at peak bloom right now and look so pretty in the secret garden. I think I need more of these.
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Only three weeks til spring!
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Hi Sherry,
Spring is gearing up in your area as it is in mine. Love the windflowers. They are such a pretty blue. I had those for years when I lived in Virginia.
Hi Lana,
No matter how many ‘mixed’ color bags I buy of these little bulbs, it seems I always get mostly blue. They are pretty though and such cheerful little flowers.
Oh this post truly lifts my heart out of the gray day we are having now. Gorgeous.
Thanks, Christine. Me too — nothing cheers me like seeing my garden come to life in spring.
Thank you for the inspirational post. The pictures are wonderful!
Thanks for your comments, Angela. Glad you liked the photos!
I’m looking forward to checking out your blog — I’ll add you to my blogroll. :)
Nothing like reviewing your posts to contantly remind me, year after year, what I want to buy this year. Anemone blanda……i’ve always wanted this. And those little irises……..reticulata? Something like that?
Very sorry to hear about the deer damage. While the deer were a constant threat here and I do have deer browsing damage everywhere, it was the voles that came in huge armies and annhialated good parts of three large beds. Seems they come in waves every three years. To the point that you literally waste hundreds of dollars of plants. This past Fall/Winter was a particularly fierce battle.
Hi Jim,
The little irises are Iris reticulata ‘Harmony’. You can find them most anywhere online for fall planting.
Oh, I can sympathize about losing hundreds of dollars of plants. The deer this winter have been AWFUL here — they have browsed about half my hydrangeas, completely mowed down every bud on 22 azalea shrubs here, have bitten the tops off dozens of tulips and heucheras and hostas and what they haven’t eaten, they’ve stomped. I’ve been so frustrated I’ve literally been in tears looking at all the damage.
We’ve always had a dog, and I guess he did a much better job at keeping them away then I ever realized.. sadly, we lost him last summer (old age, he was 16 yrs old).. and now the deer just come down from the woods in droves.. As the woods green up though, SURELY they will have plenty to eat without ruining my garden! My gardens cover about an acre, so it would be impossible to use a repellant over that much area and I don’t want to get another dog…
We too have moles and voles, much less though since we have a family of cats here now (4 of them). They pretty well take care of them.. lol
I know how you feel — it’s SO frustrating to work so hard and spend so much and then see it wiped out overnight by the critters.
Good luck to both of us this gardening season! :)
-Sherry