Panayoti and all, I can do my part too. We went from lingering winter a week or so ago to almost summer on Sunday. Magnolias are bursting into bloom, with the yellow 'Elizabeth' the only one still in bud. Narcissus are in full bloom, from the little ones like N. calcicola to the big trumpet hybrids, all in flower. Fritillaria crassifolia kurdica is in bloom in the rock garden and one Fritillaria pallidiflora is blooming this year.
Out walking the Monon Trail on Monday, I saw areas with masses of Claytonia virginica in bloom. Other areas had Dicentra, either canadnesis or cucullaria -- I couldn't get close enough to tell which. In my own garden, many Trillium are up but only the T. cuneatum (from North Carolina) and T. sessile (from Southern Indiana) are in bloom. Many of the pedicellates, like erectum album and most of the grandiflorum, are not even started up yet. There is one clump of Mertensia in bloom. One volunteer clump of white Anemone blanda are in bloom. The Erythronium are showing sparse bloom, but at least a few flowers. Jim Shields in central Indiana USA At 12:07 PM 4/13/2011 +0000, you wrote: >The silence on Alpine-L is deafening! Here we seem to be in the midst of >another miraculous spring (albeit we have had almost no precipitation): it >has been quite cool with light frosts (although one night into the low >twenties did fry the early magnolias ten days ago: many in shadier aspects >made it through, however, and there are some magnificent Magnolia x >soulangeana blooming again!). Right now the flowering trees are mostly at >or near peak (all the plums/pears/peaches/cherries/crabs/redbuds/etc. etc. >making for lively streetscapes.) The bright but cool days encourage >everything to bloom their heads off and last forever. Things have been in >such suspended animation I've had a chance to capture some things that >often go dashing by, so to speak. I posted this link on the NARGS forum, >but I suspect not all of you are dedicated forumists yet: > > > ><http://public.fotki.com/Panayoti/denver-march-2010/>http://public.fotki.com/Panayoti/denver-march-2010/ > > > >And I bet that your own gardens are all starting to explode as well! Hope >you all too are having an enchanting April! Don't you love springtime? > > > >Panayoti Kelaidis > >Denver, Colorado (USA) Zone 5 >_______________________________________________ >Alpine-l mailing list >[email protected] >http://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/alpine-l ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Tel. ++1-317-867-3344 _______________________________________________ Alpine-l mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/alpine-l
