Tell me what is flowering in your garden today.

[PerspicaciaTick]

My garden is looking very green and vibrant today.

I can see:
Apple blossom
Camellia (although the flowers are starting to drop)
Forget me nots
Lungwort
Hellebores are hanging on
Euphorbia are doing their limey green thing and perking up one corner
Bluebells
Chaenomeles

What can you see? And what region are you in? (And I might nick your ideas )

[SirVixofVixHall]

Clematis Montana just staring to open on the warmer walls, and in full flower on the South one. Lots of really amazing tulips, huge, stunning pink ones and some paeony like ones that are really lovely. Camassia looks very pretty with the frothy forget-me-nots. Columbine is in bud, and bluebells out. The fritillaries are just going over. Apple blossom will open soon but the pear is open as is the plum. My pink daffodils are open, they flower later than the others for some reason. Alliums in bud. It looked like the Somme out there only a few weeks ago and now it is filling up with colour. I'm in West Wales.

[mousmous]

I love my tulips.
I buy loads of different bulbs each autumn, mix them all up and plant them wherever there is an inch of bare earth.

[PerspicaciaTick]

I have been wary of tulips since I spent a small fortune on marvellous co!ors and frilly petals at the Blumenmarkt in Amsterdam. Ever single one came up red.

Perhaps I need to try again.

[SirVixofVixHall]

mousmous, that would make a lovely dress print! Is the dark one Havran? They look gorgeous. I will try and get a pic of mine in the morning. I also buy loads, I wait until the sales. I put a lot in very very late this year, (February), and they have all come up well. Sometimes when they go in early they get dug up and eaten by various beasties. I have mad ones this year that look like little fires.

[Flugdrachen]

lots of muscari
dicentra
bluebells
ranunculus
chives
primroses
aqualegia
fritillaries
forget-me-knots
violas
vinca major
tulips
rosemary
rose (zepherine drouhin) is about to go

(south east sheltered spot in town)

[HaveYouSeenHerLately]

mousmous do your tulips flower next year if you leave them in situ?

[mousmous]

no idea about the variety, sorry.
I bought mist at lidl though, they seem good value.
I leave them in and most come up again. I'm careful to leave the green until it's totally dried out and we are in a mild area.

[SirVixofVixHall]

I leave mine in too, but only some come up again. Partly as they get eaten I think. There is a patch of stripey ones that were here when we arrived 7 years ago, and they still come up, although numbers have dwindled in the last couple of years. However my favourite parrot one seems to only last a year. I had a couple of dozen last year and this year only two are flowering. I also get some that come back with leaves but no flowers. Maybe they are in too shady a spot? So i buy new ones every year, and this year all the amazing huge pink ones and the flame-like ones are all new and so its been exciting seeing them bloom! I'm going to take some pictures today if the sun comes out!
It is interesting how some of you have things in full flower that for me are not open yet (magnolia stellata for instance). I am near the sea so not high up, and thus fairly mild, but it must be warmer where you are! I am in a rural village, so a city would be warmer I suppose.

[PerspicaciaTick]

Thank you all for posting. Your gardens all sound lovely.Very excited about next spring now when I've sorted out my new planting.

[ShebaRabbit]

Clematis Pixie, second year down but its tiny with lots of lovely flowers. Ornamental crab apple is about to bloom and has that lovely deep pink on the flowers just before they open. no sign of blossom really on the bramley and eaters round the back yet. Rural garden with mixed hawthorn/ blackthorn hedge that looks amazing with masses of flowers in spots, bluebells under the beech trees at front, past their best overgrown forsythia and berberis that I'd love to get rid of in bloom at the front. I have exochordia the bride too but its in a pot due to very heavy clay soil . Tiny buds appearing on female holly in a planter I've had for about 8 years, time to plant it I think.

Few strawberries that the frosts have killed -the centres of the flowers have gone black. Had to put bell cloches over new clematis and sweet peas in pots last two nights also. In the Aldi greenhouse tomatoes, pumpkin, cauli and new strawberry plants doing fine. no sign of squash, bean, mange tout seedlings yet. Flowering currant has peaked but still blooming away. Had topsoil delivered on Friday that is half stones and definitely not veg grade so rang to complain this morning, waiting for them to call me back. I have a horrible feeling i'm being given the run around because I'm a woman

[shovetheholly]

Tulips (species just going over, big ones just coming)
Viburnum x burkwoodii
Viburnum tinus (still going!)
Cyclamen (still going, but starting to look ragged)
Thali daffs
Erysmium 'bowles mauve'
Cowslips
Pulmonaria
Brunnera 'Jack Frost'
Celandines (black leaved variety)
Primula 'gold laced'
Bergenia
Tiarella (just starting)
Dicentra
Magnolia stellata
Wood anemones of various kinds
Hellebores (still)
Erythroniums
Magnolia stellata
Apple blossom
Hylomecon japonica
Doronicum
Euphorbia

No sign of bluebells oop here yet

[mousmous]

if this is not borrage, what is it? the leave are like comphrey leaves.

[SirVixofVixHall]

You are right that it isn't borage. It looks very familiar to me, I think it may be bugloss? I'll go and google and see if I find it!

[SirVixofVixHall]

pics.davesgarden.com/pics/2011/04/16/DMersh/299773.jpg
This is bugloss, I think it is the same plant ?

[mousmous]

thanks, that's it.
I was half right though, it's off the borrage family

[Callmegeoff]

Front garden

Tulips, forget-me- not, Camelia, purple lilac, a hardy geranium, white Alliums, spirea, wisteria, hawthorn, and x1 Honesty plant.

Back garden

Orange tulips amongst a haze of forget-me-nots that I am drawn to look at like the setting sun. Apple blossom, violas in a pot, various Pelagoniums that have just come from the green house, white Lilac, Clumps of primroses, bluebells, violets and dandelions!

In the green house I have flowering 5 Petunias magenta with cream outer bits that were free with something else - I have no idea where to put them.


Everyday brings new delights, foxgloves with multi heads and Aquilegia won't be long.

[ParkingFred]

I haven't checked out the whole garden, but on the trees I can see apple & pear blossom and a bit of cherry left.

Tulips, camelia (we transplanted it last year and it's bravely struggling on), tulips, flowering currant, muscari, bluebells, masses of forget-me-not and some lilac just starting. And one, lone iris.

[blueshoes]

A pink magnolia tree aching from the weight of the blossoms.

[traviata]

mousmous I would call that alkanet. It's very pretty but it tries to take over, and it has very long roots.

[traviata]

Flowering - pink tulips/bluebells/a few white blooms on the silver leaved convolvulus. They make a lovely combination but the bluebells are too much for the next wave of plants (geraniums, rose, fennel, poppies, scabious, grasses) so they need to come out really.

some sky blue miniature phlox, low-growing veronicas, and ajuga - all blues, set against black ophiopogon and silver lamium.

In the back garden, coronilla and berberis; pink crab apple with pink wallflowers & purple tulips & white amelanchier together; a ceanothus; akebia quinata (just planted);

many dandelions.

[aircooled]

Paeonia mlokosewitschii. (Yes, had to look that up). Molly the Witch to most of us. Never have more than 3 flowers but for 3 days they're beautiful.

[Minimammoth]

Lots of the above. I also have tree peony, bright yellow.

[PerspicaciaTick]

I'm very pleased to say that both the lilac and the jasmine (which were unceremoniously hacked off to stumps by DH when making space for the new fence) are sprouting vigorously. No flowers this year of course, but they look so determined .

[applecatchers36]

Bluebells
Geranium (window boxes)
Lilac
Jasmine
Strawberry ( red gauntlet)

In bud Pink Peonies

[SugarPlumTree]

Mme. Alfred Carriere rose, next door's Weigela, strawberries, Tayberries, strawberries, something low and pale blue, oxalis, rhododendron nearly out, Holly and choisya.