What's poppin in your yard?

[Beckysews]

Thanks Gene!

We have daffodils about 3-4 inches high. 
The sedum in sprouting under the leaf mulch.
I think the forsythia is beginning to bud a leetle bit too.

What's poppin up in your yard?

[natvrabit]

Hellebores are showing off. The Daphne Odora are smelling sweet and beautiful in their wintertime glory. The Arums are showing themselves off and the Daff's and crocuses (that haven't been dug up and scattered about by the tree rats (squirrels) are popping up. My poor pansies took a beating in the harsh cold and snow cover.

[chatres]

Daffy's and crocus here  also.  Ohhh, must go check my sedum too !
 natvrabit , I wish I could keep the Daphne alive, they just up and die after a couple years everytime I've planted them.
The guy at Apex nursery told me they would do that as they are quite temperamental it seems.  Gosh they smell sooo good !   You have any trade secrets to keeping them alive for years and  years ?

[natvrabit]

Chatres, they (DAPHNE) HAVE to have good drainage in this clay. Even then, they likely will expire in 7 or 8 years max. HOWEVER, in THEIR defense, think in terms of how many people will spend TWICE the amount of money on CUT ROSES this Valentines, or a bundle of misc. flowers at the grocery each week and they are wasted in a few days VS. the MULTIPLE years a Daphne smells and looks so WONDERFUL!
I have played with cuttings off Daphne and successfully propagated to keep the joy alive here! I look at it as a long term perennial...and well worth it

[natvrabit]

You know, the BEAUTY about NC is that you can have something in BLOOM every month out of the year to brighten your world! For example, a tree. Prunus Mume, showing off right now, beautiful pink blooms.
We have excellent local info resources in this state at our finger tips. The NC Botanical Garden, NCSU Arboretum, our very own Agriculture Extension Agency. Al Cooke is a jewel!

[randy]

I found a native honey suckle vine on my land last Spring, not like the Japanese version.  I transplanted it next to the house and it grew beautifully on my gate.  They don't take over like the others. Plus i got tons of sunflowers growing underneath my bird feeder, but they sure are pretty.  Cardinals are messy eaters

[chathamgardener]

In my yard at the moment, my two different flowering apricots (Prunus mume) are blooming well, their sweet scents perfuming the air quite nicely. I'm especially fond of the variety 'Peggy Clark.' Peggy's flowers are a deep rose red, and her sweet fragrance has cinnamon overtones that I could inhale all day. If I could bottle the fragrance, I'd be rich.

My snow drops are up and opening. The hellebores are being shy about opening, but they're full of buds. The deer are biting off leaves and spitting them out. Hellebores are poisonous, but I guess the deer are so hungry they keep taking tastes to confirm that.

My daffodils are popping up all over, but no blooms yet. Likewise the crocuses. And I'm even seeing a few tulip leaves peeking up through the mulch.

The flower buds on the native spice bushes (Lindera benzoin) are swelling and starting to show a bit of color (yellow).

And the woodpeckers are in full courtship mode, drumming on anything hollow to announce their territorial intentions.

Just enough promise of spring to get me through the dregs of winter. 

[natvrabit]

What a beautiful day today! (Wish I could have spent it out in the yard, vs. work, but glad to have the job). The deer have nibbled things here this winter that they never even entertained the thought of before...like my Nellie Stevens Holly   And like your (and my) hellebores Chathamgardner, they just spit both out. The holly needed a little touch up pruning, but I'd prefer to do so myself I am a little more selective than they are They killed my Hollywood juniper last winter between chomping and browsing it

[Patty52]

Thank-you for this forum, Gene. 

It was so beautiful today that I spent quite a bit of time in my yard. My first daffodils opened today - five of them are fully open, but many more are showing yellow. This is the earliest bloom date in the twenty years since I planted them. This is no surprise, as they were up over an inch before Christmas - the 23rd, also the earliest date.

I cleaned out the bluebird house, which they always say should be done in February, before the birds start the new year's nest. I've seen bluebirds, but not in my yard yet.

I weeded for a while in the bed where I have bloodroot and there was no sign of it that I could see, but I did not disturb the leaf mulch over it, so it might be stirring under there. And my blue Roman hyacinths are well up, but no blooms for a while.

[Miss Jane]

This is where we all find common ground. Pun intended. Thank you, Gene.

[randy]

This is where we all find common ground. Pun intended. Thank you, Gene.

[seavey]

My hellebores are blooming like mad, and the daffs and irises are sprouting up, up, up.  A million buds on the dogwoods . . . Those  flowering apricots sound fabulous.  Do they fruit? 

[artymarty]

I can't believe so many people have bulbs up already!

[MissMarty]

yep, bulbs up here too...We're in a little protected area.  We didn't get frost till about 6 weeks after my renter out in the open, we haven't had many frosty mornings at all, to tell the truth.  I have daffodils with buds up in the beds near the house, tulips out by the fence.  I was afraid that the snow cover might burn them, but they all seemed to do very well.

Yay bulbs!

[randy]

mine to our popping up everywhere around the house and yard, but far from any blooming.  I still have some wild ferns still alive in one corner

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