What's blooming in your garden at the moment?

[Annabelle4]

We had this thread last year but I can't find it.

I have a white cherry blossom and 2 pink cherry blossom (all young so it will be a few years before I can really appreciate their beauty)

White magnolia

Pink Magnolia (Magnolia Galaxy) is still only budding. The weather has been cold and it's also young.

Tulips

I can't wait for my Paul's Scarlett tree to flower in May

My Camilias were poor this year. They seem to do that every second year. I've since read that it's to do with water the previous August, so I'll keep that in mind this year

Looking forward to reading replies

Just had a walk round and found brunera, forgetme nots and my phaeum geranium going great guns. Not flowering but looking fabulous are my arum lilies, they have always been ok but this year are looking amazing, they are close to the apple tree and I had that reduced last autumn and the extra light has worked wonders. There are also some primroses in pots but since they were bought from Homebases reduced shelf for 50p and revived I can't claim them!

Bluebells
Forget me nots
Cowslips
Arabis
Yellow alyssum
Iberia
Apple trees
Crab apple

The tamarisk is teetering on the brink, as are Welsh poppies and chives. Tulips just starting.

Apple blossom has been and gone, as have daffodils.
I've got red marguerites, pansies, bleeding hearts, very abundant clematis montana, rosemary, bergenia. Even our little acer had some cute little pink blossom this year. Heliborus has just finished and some deep, deep purple aquilegia are just starting..

A small succulent I don't know the name of and expect to not survive the winter every year has some lovely pink daisy like flowers.
Laburnum is just starting and the pieris has new bright red leaves.
Oh and forget me nuts of course. Love this time of year.

Two pink camellias
Rosemary
Potentilla
Azaleas
Bluebells
Shrubby honeysuckle
Crab apple
Grape hyacinths
Forget-me-nots
Violets
Spiraea
A white thing whose name escapes me
MIL's lilac is ready to pop any minute
Honesty
And today... (and really early this year) and despite the soaking weather - a cistus

Dandelions. My parent's tortoise is pleased.

I only grow vegetables and herbs so until I get a base down for a greenhouse I am yet to buy I will have you wait to put veg seeds straight into the ground.

Cistus
Spring bulbs - daffodils, muscadine, tulips
Hellebores
Polyanthus
Camellia
Campanula
Choisya
Azalea
Tiarella
Lilac is ready to flower

Irises! I forgot them!

Bulb people - advice please?

I have some old ramshackle pots inherited from my late MIL - one has daffs, one has 1 lonely tulip (there were 3 last year) & one has those little blue things.

I also have a few little pots of mini flowers - tiny daffs, iris & tulips

And I have some as yet unplanted bulbs DS2 brought me just before Christmas from the Netherlands. Should have planted last year. Failed.

So I'm wondering, can I dig up the old ones (once died back) & replant along with a variety of new ones? If so, when would be good? & would it work to put the mini flowers in with normal ones (round the outsides obv)?

TIA

I think that would work fine, You can also layer bulbs in pots so that you get a succession of different flowers, look online for suggestions of early/late bulb varieties, put a good layer of compost over crocks in the pot, then put in larger bulbs first , then another layer of compost, then middle size bulbs sort of in between the larger ones, another layer of compost then smaller bulbs then more compost/soil. the rule of thumb is that you plant bulbs at least one and a half to two times their height .

I would let your current bulbs die down completely, put a marker in the pot so you remember what they are then have fun in the autumn. I do also quite like pots which are all one variety, especially iris because they are so pretty and a whole pot ful really makes you look carefully at them.

Re the unplanted bulbs, have a look at them, if they have dried up and are soft then bung them in the compost, but if they are still fleshy and firm I would probably plant them in pots now, although they won't do anything until next year at the earliest, but I would do it because I would forget them if I left them until autumn! Make sure they are in a well drained compost and hope for the best.

Oh thank you, viques, that's really helpful

These have all been in flower at roughly the same time - well, the minis were earlier. I'll have a look at the Dutch ones - they're in a packet in a fairly dim fairly cool place. I think they're all tulips (from Amsterdam, trala)

Love the pot full of irises idea!

Puddles! 😁

Forget-me-not
Aquilegia
Lily of The Valley
Peonies flowers starting with small buds, as are the roses. It will be a while till they flower though
Holly
Wisteria
Blue diamond tulips gearing up
Black parrot tulips in fresh bloom
Blueberry plants starting to blossom
Bluebells

Violets and most other tulips are on their last legs, hellebores are growing new heaves and the spent flowers (sepals) are working on seed production. Lords and Ladies are spent 😂 and fading. Toad Lily flowers dried up.
Cowslips fading.

I have an orange geum bravely battling on after having flowered continually since last autumn. Also primroses, species tulips, greenish hellebores, white scilla, clematis Markham's Pink, rosa Fruhlingsgold, bay, a little low-growing NZ clematis I've forgotten the name of, cream flowered saxifrage, camellias and a trailing purple vinca. I lost a ceratostigma plumbaginoides which I only planted last year, poor thing.

Tulips are out in force, daffs going over, anemones coming back to life, camassia starting to open and my first time growing them.

I'm in Melbourne, in mid-autumn so:

crucifix orchids, they bloom all year round
rosemary, full of bees
various bromeliads
Chilean potato vine
climbing pelargonium
slipper orchids
bougainvillea, which has three flushes a year

Viburnums - one of my favourite are looking lovely.

2 camellias, which we very haphazardly moved last year, are flowering happily.

Tulips are out, daffs have finished.

Lots of bluebells and honesty and forget me nots. Loads of blossom on all our trees still. Lilacs are nearly out.

Big fat buds on the peonies and the alliums are looking promising.

I have a deep hydrangea bed that is flourishing, but last year it caught a late frost.

Love this time of year in the garden.

My cowslips are out, I have violets and daisies in the lawn, the early spring/late winter flowers have mostly gone. The bluebells are looking promising. My species tulips are beginning to come to their end.

In the actual beds, my anemones which have come up from seed from a beautiful parent plant look nothing like their parent but some interesting colours have come up - I like a bit of practical genetics in the garden!

The rosemary is in bloom and that's it.
About to flower are the polygonatum, aquilegias, the centaurea, a geum and my lilac has some very promising looking buds. The japanese anemones are looking sturdy, and I've some evil saponaria that's happily romping away much to my disgust. I think I've finally eradicated the acanthus.

My garden is best in mid June and a bit overly foliage and not enough flowers at the moment. However, my lovely hostas are going to look awesome if the slugs don't get them and I've a few things to put in and a few things to take out. Out will come the world dominating daylilies and in goes the baptisa australis, the salvia Phyllis Fancy and the cream eschscholzia

This year has killed off a few things that are normally fairly hardy. It's even killed a couple of raspberries. My asparagus is coming up though and the broad beans are looking healthy.

This year has been useless for weather so far though and my favourite thing of a first cup of tea on the patio watching the birds and admiring my garden has happened a grand total of twice!

I have clematis, forget me nots, primroses, gwenllian bush, bleeding hearts, poppies, yellow archangels, lungwort, Solomons something or other- pretty bell shaped flowers, sun king.

Apple trees, pink phlox, aubretia, bluebells, forget me nots (i have been crazy and grown lots from seed that will prob now take over my whole garden.)

Oh and the wild 🍓 strawberries

My Rose Banksaei Lutea which I have waited 4 years to strut its stuff. My Acer Katsura whichnwas new last year. The wet spring has been really good for the Acers, which have all grown massively this year.

I might have to prune them if they get any bigger

I love those acres.
I planted a magnolia galaxy (looks like purple tulip flowers) last year but I don't think it will flower, it's far too late now? Leaves are appearing, but no flower and I know flower should come first with magnolia. Oh well, maybe next year.

Cherry blossom are absolutely spectacular in my area right now

Forgot our elderflower is also blooming and one of our honeysuckles appears to be on its way to flower.
Also have muscari and tulips are just finishing.

Grape Hyacinth,

Camelia, new plant

Campunula

Saxifrage, pink and white...though I've lost a few plants and the neighbour managed to take out three plants

Azalea...struggling and didn't flower last year

Apple Tree

Choisya..white flowers and over 20 years old. It was badly damaged by the weight of snow, so even though it looks gangly I'm glad it's flowered

Clematis, pink...newely planted

Rosemary

Chives flowers about to burst

Clematis white about to burst