Thanks as always to Carol of May Dreams Gardens for hosting Garden Bloggers Bloom Day! After all this is the month she dreams about.
While I'm aware that today, the day before Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, is World Naked Gardening Day, I think I'll spare the neighbors and give it a pass. It's been cold, windy, rainy, miserable and damp up north. Most Minnesotans are too busy with the Fishing Opener today to give much thought to gardening, much less in the nude.
So I donned my light down coat and wrapped a wooly scarf twice around my neck before heading out to photograph the latest buds and blooms in my garden. Even with that my fingers were numb halfway through. Just when you think I've run out of ways to complain about the weather up here, I manage to find another.
I can't get used to the compressed gardening season, daffodils blooming alongside tulips, well, it just seems wrong.
Just like Margaret Roach of A Way to Garden, I've lost the tags and can't remember the names of these beautiful varieties of narcissus. Although I do recognize the one here as probably "Poetica" from the pheasant-eye style daffodils. They possess a haunting clove-like scent. Any other help with ID? Is one possibly "February Gold"?
Then on to the more subtle signs of spring with lots of understated native plants.
Solomon's Seal (Polygonatum commutatum) The Garden Buzz
Large-Flowered Bellwort (Uvularia grandiflora) The Garden Buzz
Lovely shrub...Fothergilla major "Mt. Airy" The Garden Buzz
Ground hugging blooms of Wild Ginger (Asarum canadense) The Garden Buzz
Serviceberry Tree (Almelanchier alnifolia) The Garden Buzz
Red Barrenwort (Epimedium x rubrum) The Garden Buzz
River Birch catkin closeup (Betula nigra) The Garden Buzz
Ending up with a few fruit blossoms...
Buds of Blueberry "NorthSky" The Garden Buzz
Cherry "North Star" The Garden Buzz
"Red Lake" Currant blossoms The Garden Buzz
Fragaria vesca, Alpine Strawberry The Garden Buzz
And here I didn't think much was happening in the garden!
