March 2017 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Cfred72]

Gunilla, you have a beautiful carpet of Eranthis

[WimB]

That is a beutiful A.amurensis, Wim.
I planted A.vernalis last autumn, I didn't realize it would be more demanding than A.amurensis. I hope it has survived the winter (still under snow).

Spring is finally slowly coming, 'Mrs Macnamara' pushing through snow melting snow, and another 'Mrs Macnamara' surrounded by ice.

Maybe A. vernalis will love your climate more than mine...

Wim, your Adonis are lovely.  I can't get them to thrive at all  .

Pots?

[WimB]

Some more Ranunculaceae...

Anemone blanda 'Akseki', for me one of the most beautiful selections of A. blanda, with snow-white petals which are steel-blue on the underside, making them seem light-grey in full sun.
Some regular Anemone blanda
and Pulsatilla grandis is starting too.

[WimB]

Shortia uniflora 'Princeps' in bud

[David Nicholson]

Nice Wim, where do you grow it? A friend of mine grows his in a heavily shaded, low tufa walled bed and his thrives. He did give me a piece, but I killed it!

[WimB]

Nice Wim, where do you grow it? A friend of mine grows his in a heavily shaded, low tufa walled bed and his thrives. He did give me a piece, but I killed it!

Over here they only want to grow in soft peatblocks which are kept watered and shaded in summer.

[ian mcdonald]

No snow here again this year. It has been warm enough to sit down the garden with a cup of tea. The Camellia is flowering early this year, also nearly in flower are Fritillaria meleagris and Tulipa sylvestris in the lawn. Blackbirds are collecting nest material and I saw a peacock butterfly yesterday and today. Some bees are also flying.Three Dionysia are flowering in the greenhouse.

[Leena]

Maybe A. vernalis will love your climate more than mine...

Let's hope so.  I planted it in dryish slope in full sun, but maybe I will move it to part shade..

Beautiful spring flowers, Gunilla!

[Robert]

More spring flowers from or California garden.



Erysimum concinnum - a somewhat short lived California native perennial.



The flowers have a interesting fragrance.



Geranium renardii - I like the flowers and the texture of the foliage, so I plant it here and there around the garden.



One my hybrid Rhododendrons - racemosum dwarf, self F2  x dendrocharis - it take the heat, is compact, and has many flowers. It is good enough to keep in our Sacramento garden.



Another one of my hybrid Rhododendrons - (racemosum dwarf x mucronulatum) x edgeworthii - heat tolerant, nice flowers, and upright but not huge. It is worth keeping around too. 

[Lampwick]

Welcome back from a short break away John. I hope things are gradually getting better for you though I don't for a moment underestimate your pain and sadness, ongoing for a long time. These lovely things in your garden perhaps will help a little bit. I'm pleased you in the north are entering springtime.

Thank you Lesley for those kind words, it’s been four weeks today, since we said goodbye to our lovely Kai! He never missed an opportunity to be with me in the garden whatever I was doing.
If I positioned myself to take a picture of a plant he would often brazenly put himself in the frame or he would sniff the flower as if to approve what I was doing – we all miss him so much.

[Leucogenes]

After this cold winter with a lot of snow, we go very slowly ...

[Philip Walker]

Androsace laevigata ex 'Saddle Mount'
1st flowers sown 24.1.14-seed from an SRGC member

[Yann]

The garden is waking up despite cold wind and rain, Corydalis x 'Badulag' and Pulsatilla grandis
In the greenhouse it's definitely spring, Anemone coronaria.

[Hoy]

Two shots from the garden today, but of the same plants actually. Sun today but a little snow last night. Fortunately it melted in the early morning.

Iris 'George'

[Lesley Cox]

Aethionema oppositifolium is very nice. A good genus but a pity so many are quite short-lived, with me anyway.

Trond your Iris 'George' is exceptionally dark. Is it perhaps a trick of the light? I have lost mine but it was more a mulberry colour. As I understand it, 'George' is a selection of Iris histrioides, not of reticulata. Correct me though if I'm wrong.