What do you see on your garden walks? 2012

[Palustris]

Palustris, a very beautiful pulsatilla.  Do you know which one it is?

Not really, it has been suggested that it is a form of P. ambigua. All I can say is that it is slap bang in the middle of Pulsatilla rubra with deep red flowers, P. vulgaris with normal purple flowers and P. grandis with lilac coloured blooms. It is a self seeded one that is for sure.  I have a picture of it in flower for the first time in 2006.

[Lori S.]

Lewisia longipetala, emerging:

Not very long leaves, though on that longipetala  

Well, no, not on the mingy little specimens I grow!    I suspect "longipetala" refers to the petals though; Davidson in his Lewisias refers to them as "narrow, equal" and "starry, not oval", (in describing how it was differentiated from P. pygamaea); see L. longipetala in bloom below:

[Hoy]

Lewisia longipetala, emerging:

Not very long leaves, though on that longipetala 

Well, no, not on the mingy little specimens I grow!    I suspect "longipetala" refers to the petals though; Davidson in his Lewisias refers to them as "narrow, equal" and "starry, not oval", (in describing how it was differentiated from P. pygamaea); see below:

Yes, i suppose so! Anyway both are very cute. Would like to grow them both

[Hoy]

Suddenly the sun broke through the cloud cover and the Anemone blanda and Chionodoxa opened their flowers. All the Scilla and Crocus are done but other small bulbs take over.
I got two pots of Trillium pusillum from a friend last year and one of them are due to flower! They all wait for a place in the garden.

[cohan]

Congrats on some sunshine! I like the pink Anemone- it seems blue and yellow are more common for spring flowers, so pink is welcome

How small is the T pusillum?

[Schier]

No photos from me as yet, won't be long though, I hope! Out checking on the garden areas today,the usual suspects are showing signs of life, the ever so hardy sedums, the plain old - plain old varieties, I don't think anything stops them, short of pulling them out. And many of the dianthus, and bergenia, perking up their "ears".  I stopped and checked on the crambe cordifolia I planted last year, wondering if it made it through the winter as it wasn't very large, but I see what looks to be at least a couple of reddish growing points on the exposed crown, naturally I was tempted to poke at them, but at the last minute I found some common sense and left them alone...

[Lori S.]

Glad to hear of someone else growing Crambe cordifolia around here, Faith - it's a terrific plant!
I have been resisting tugging at things in the rock garden too.

[Lori S.]

The small bulbs are starting to bloom in greater number now - crocus, chionodoxa, scilla - though no good shows yet. 
A couple of hepatica are starting to bloom today, though my camera didn't the colours correctly.  They are actually more of a deep purple-blue, especially the H. nobilis.
H. nobilis; H. transylvanica:
 

[cohan]

Great Hepaticas, Lori Still no garden action here (really curious whether the forecast possible heavy rain- and snow- will speed things along at all, or just make us even soggier - we may be floating by the end..), but I did, to my surprise, see some Petasites in bud in the bush- just emerging from the water, only in one sheltered spot (that I saw, no doubt similar others) with snow still melting into the water just metres away..
more pics here:
http://nargs.org/smf/index.php?topic=591.msg16594#msg16594

[Hoy]

Congrats on some sunshine! I like the pink Anemone- it seems blue and yellow are more common for spring flowers, so pink is welcome

How small is the T pusillum?

Had a couple hours of sun this evening too and the temp reached +12C.

I have planned to plant more of the pink anemone. It looks nice in the lawn.

My flowering T pusillum is 9.5cm tall and the leaves are 3cm long! Have about 10 nonflowering specimens of half that size too. Hopefully they flower next year.

[Hoy]

Lori, nice to see some hepaticas with flowers! My plants didn't flower much due to wet weather and slugs. Although they let the leaves alone they devour the petals.

[RickR]

My Trillium pusillum hit the dust. 

Or, it's been sleeping for two years so far...

[McDonough]

My Trillium pusillum hit the dust. 

Or, it's been sleeping for two years so far...

Two years ago I bought Trillium pusillum 'Road Runner', named for this selection's propensity for spreading quickly, I have seen some wonderful clumps of it in other gardens.  In my garden, it should be renamed 'Road Sleeper" as it has reduced in size and looks pathetic.  I suppose, the trick is to find the right spot.

[Todd Boland]

Guess I should be posting my current bloomers in this thread..I'll endevour to do this in the future.

I have never tried T. pusillum..for what its worth, most of the trillium I do have are just breaking the surface.

[Todd Boland]

These were a few shots taken in the garden today.