in bloom now
- To: "'perennials'"
- Subject: in bloom now
- From: S* C*
- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 11:00:41 -0500
Here in zone 5b we're been having a lot of those April showers that are
supposed to bring the May flowers. It's warming up and maybe the spring
frosts are over... Here's what's in bloom for me now:
Spring bulbs: the last of the siberian squill, several kinds of species
tulips, regular tulips of all sorts, daffodils of all sorts, fritillaria
meleagris (white and the purple checked), blue anemone blanda, yellow
anemone ranunculoides, yellow erythronium, ipheion, grape hyacinth
Perennials and woodlanders: pulsatilla in red, purple, and pink; aubrieta;
arabis; yellow allysum; Japanese fan columbine (flabelata nana); daphne
gengkwa; double bloodroot; dutchman's breeches; yellow wood poppy
(stylophorum); creeping phlox; phlox bifida; phlox divaricata; lathyrus
verna (an early non-vining type of sweetpea); pulmonaria; corydalis solida
(rose-colored flowers); epimedium (red ones and a yellow one); brunnera
macrophylla (tiny, forget-me-not flowers and big leaves); a tiny white
primula; euphorbia myrsinities; mertensia (bluebells); vinca; violets;
creeping charlie (i.e., ground ivy); dandelions...
Shrubs: pink double flowering almond; hardy azaleas; viburnum carlesii (only
one bloom though...?); dwarf fothergillia (white bottle-brush type flower
smells sweet) (crabapples, pears, and redbud all over town too, of course)
There's probably a lot more, but I don't have a little laptop computer I can
take out into the garden (I'm at the office several miles away anyhow...) to
check it...
Happy gardening!
Susan in Urbana, Illinois
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