What do you see on your garden walks?

[Hoy]

Today I planted out a dozen of Fuchsia magellanica seedlings and some other woodlanders

I also found a lot of Corydalis starting blooming

           


 - and Rhododendron sutchuense is soon ready:


   

[McDonough]

Enough of this winter gloom.
Here are a few shots of spring to Cheer everone up.

Great stuff John!  Fun to see photos of the two forms of Ranunculus glaberrimus virtually side-by-side, I had not seed var. ellipticus before.  The bright bud color on the Eriogonum buds, and promising yellow buds on Physaria saximontana are cheerful indeed.

But it is Allium parvum that I am so happy to see here, one that I've had seed of a number of times but not yet raised to flowering size.  These near stemless Western American Allium can be as concise and desirable as many of the Central Asian species.  

Superb Viola trinervata!  I see buds on my Fritillaria pudica, and lots of 1-3 year seedlings from sowing in-place seed.

[Weiser]

Thank you everyone I aim to please.

 

Superb Viola trinervata! 

Mark you got the flower color right but on the wrong species. 

[McDonough]

Thank you everyone I aim to please.

 

Superb Viola trinervata! 

Mark you got the flower color right but on the wrong species. 

Dang, double dang, I'm being careless, it is V. beckwithii.  When I think of "sagebrush violets" both come to mind

[Booker]

John, you certainly are cheering me up - but when I see your neat planting in gravel I am getting jealous too Here such gravel beds are covered in moss and grass in no time due to the humid climate. Grass even germinate and grow on moss covered stones and it looks more like a lawn.

Cliff, how many different Ranunculi(?) do you have?

Hi Trond,
I don't have an extensive collection, I concentrate on high mountain buttercups and try to grow large flowering plants of the ones that seem more difficult in cultivation.  I am particularly interested in the New Zealand, North & South American and high European species having limited success with some and great frustration with others.  
My growing conditions sound very similar to yours with moss and liverworts encroaching into every pot, trough and raised bed.

Cliff, your plant taste seems to be a real challenge!

But worth it when the occasional success occurs!  LOL

Ranunculus seguieri - winner of my two Farrer Medals in 2001 and 2003.
Please note : This image was taken two or three days after one of the shows and the stems had elongated due to exposure to the heat and poor light in the show venue.  The plant looked a lot better on the day!   

[Hoy]

Cliff, I had been very satisfied if I had managed to grow anything like that - long stems or not

[Weiser]

Even when you say it is not in ideal shape , there is no need to apologize for such a lovely plant.
It is a beauty!

[Spiegel]

Stunning plant, Cliff.  Hope you see it blooming in the Dolomites this year

[Kelaidis]

Wish WE could grow those high alpine, tiny white ranunculus....too hot in Denver! But we do grow some other goodies. Just as everywhere else in the Northern Hemisphere, things are coming hard and fast. I am appending a few things that are blooming right now I just photographed, mostly from the front of the alphabet...don'tcha love the Spring! You can probably deduce I'm in my Fritillaria phase...

[Hoy]

Kelaidis, I am not sure that I pity your lack of possibility to grow high alpine Ranunculus species! You grow numerous other enviable goodies

[Lori S.]

Terrific plants, Trond and Cliff and Panayoti!
The (pathetic) state of things here, by comparison... it's not spectacular (or even in focus  ) but it's in bloom!
Alyssum wulfenianum:

 

[cohan]

And yet, Lori-- far ahead of me See-- there is a good reason for me to be on this forum-no matter how cold or inactive anyone's garden may be, it will always be colder and more desolate here (until we get some members from someplace with an even shorter season-ha!.....)

[Kelaidis]

I don't feel sorry for those of you with shorter growing seasons: this summer when we are baking and our rock gardens are parboiled and dreary, your's will be brimming with color! We have to revel in our incredible springs and falls (which are often punctuated by disastrous hailstorms, severe frosts or snowstorms--this year is uncannily wonderful). In fact this is the FOURTH miraculously wonderful spring in a row. I am thinking I might want to move elsewhere: Colorado Front Range does not usually have these interminable, sunny, cool springs where things bloom forever and ever. There are still hellebores and even crocuses and snowdrops blooming in the cooler corners where the snow lingered, but the full panoply of spring glory is rampaging in sunnier spots and lasting forever: I am posting a smattering of other recent highlights below, but those of you who are suckers for punishment can slog through a gallery of almost 100 pictures I posted on Fotki:

                                                                       http://public.fotki.com/Panayoti/denver-march-2010/

[Lori S.]

no matter how cold or inactive anyone's garden may be, it will always be colder and more desolate here (until we get some members from someplace with an even shorter season-ha!.....)

Yeah, you said it!!  Between our gardens and the late bloom in the mountains, it must look like perpetual spring here! 

Before I immerse myself in Panayoti's album (drool!), here are few things that were popping up yesterday:
Corydalis nobilis, Paeonia mlokosewitschii.... a couple of crocus and a few puschkinia showing buds...

[Weiser]

, but those of you who are suckers for punishment can slog through a gallery of almost 100 pictures I posted on Fotki:

PK
I didn't slog through that gallery of fine plants at all. I skipped through, lingering here, and there to admire. All the while longing for the day I can boast of growing such jewels.
Your garden, as always is impressive.