Flowers! 🌺 🌷 🌸 🌹

[plainjane]

They closed off the main cherry blossom parks, but this solo tree was the target of our walk this morning

[Suit]

Spring is back at our house. We bought Dahlias today so hopefully later this summer we will have lots of blooms!

[turtlegirl]

I want to buy dahlias, but they are supposed to be dug up every fall here (zone 5) and I know I just won’t do that. Maybe I should just try it and see if they live through the winter…

[plainjane]

I really love hellebores

[mirepoix]

Same !!!

[plainjane]

This tulip is right by the sidewalk, and it hasn’t made it to a bloom for many years. Idk if it has been inquisitive small hands, destructive larger hands or squirrels that really hate red.

So I am pleased for every day we get this year.

[plainjane]

Day 2 and joined by another friend who usually doesn’t make it

[plainjane]

My backyard tulips which were looking promising only have a few survivors this morning.

[plainjane]

One tulip, one beheading

[IDoMe]

[plainjane]

[plainjane]

Tulip is so showy the UPS person made a comment to the shadowy one.

[Clare-Dragonfly]

[meerkat]

[Crow]

Mimosa are such unusual flowers!

[meerkat]

Oo, thanks for the identification! I didn’t know the name of it and kept meaning to look it up.

[turtlegirl]

You’re like a month ahead of me!

[Clare-Dragonfly]

This is the first of my peonies to bloom and I bought the plant this year–I think it was started in a greenhouse. But I expect the other peony plants to follow suit any day now!

[Illathrael]

[Clare-Dragonfly]

More peonies! And the pink one is more the color I was hoping for now that it’s fully open!