I went away for a week and came back to scilla, hyacinths and daffodil! Hooray!

NOID hyacinths

Fondant

(front to back) Woodstock, City of Haarlem, Gypsy Queen, Woodstock again

Irene Copeland

There's something so wonderful about the first flowers open... and knowing that there are so many more to come!

And the hellebores are looking good too!

Royal Heritage (various)

Winter Moonbeam

madamw, sorry to hear about the harsh weather, but that is making good use of the daff blooms. Such a cute bouquet.

redwolfdoc, NICE! I'm happy to see you getting flowers. Fondant looks particularly good. I've never seen Irene Copeland. It's pretty! Your Hellebores are looking good. I hope the ones I have with nodding flowers will fill in as well as yours have.

More beautiful daffs and hyacinths, and the hellebores look perfect!

mantis- I'll have to check out the nga site, I've been seeing it pop up but was never a Dave's member so didnt go any further than that. My bulbs came from a friend and American daffodil society sales. They practically give them away (and many were given away) at meetings and for a while I had quite the addiction! Now I'm trying to give them away, I have too many :)

Fidelity.

Stainless.

Wow, love Copeland and your beautiful hellebores, Karen! Did you trim the leaves off the hellebores? Yours look really awesome with such nice stems! Love the clumping effect of them.

Madamw, your Fidelity and Stainless are gorgeous! I have to look into Fidelity to add to my daffs collection. For some reason, the Stainless did not return for me. I planted 12 in Fall of 2014. They bloomed 2015 but nothing came back this spring. Not even one.

KarenPA, thank you for your comment. Sorry that your daffodils did not return. They did not return perhaps because they did not get enough sun, were planted too close together, or were in a damp area? These are the usual reasons daffodils do not return. Mine have bloomed for the third time and are very closely planted.

Golden Echo ( they have the most divine scent ) and Tulip Lady Jane.

Before the rain and rabbits get more of my tulips, I picked the pretty ones.

Misty Glen, which is in the same division as Stainless, and virtually look the same.

What a beautiful vase to show off your tulips. Thank you for the tip on the daffs. I think I would like to try Misty Glen this time around if they look the same as Stainless. In fact, I think I like the look of Misty Glen even more. What kind of a scent does Copeland have?

KarenPA, you can find Misty Glen on John Scheepers' catalog. The vase is a cheap duplicate of the traditional Dutch tulip vase. I don't know about Copeland, but Golden Echo has a classic potent sweet jonquil fragrance that is unlike other species of floral scents.

Oh sorry, I mean Golden Echo. I was typing too fast.

Madamw, you have some really beautiful daffs there! I'm just starting to appreciate them more. Green Eyes was the first one I ever had but in three years I haven't had very good return with it. Only two flowers last year! I think it must be too shady where I have it. This is the first year I've had the Irene Copeland (I hadn't heard of it either, sandyslopes) and I'm loving it so far. Recurvus is planted in the same bed but hasn't bloomed yet.

Madamw, are those Rembrandt tulips? They're gorgeous!

Karen and sandyslopes, thank you for your nice words about my hellebores! I've found them to be a bit picky. I moved them three times before finding a bed they can be happy in! They sulk for a while each time, too. But I think they're finally happy where they are now. I did trim away the brown foliage in early March.

Redwolfdoc, I love your Helleborus. Mine are pretty fickle; lost many seedlings last year due to dryness and shadyness of the planting sites. I have a few clumps that are doing well but it takes forever for them to grow.

I am looking at Green Eyes in the catalogs to buy. I have Princess Zaide and Merlin which are planted next to a rose bush. Over time, the rose takes over and the daffs did not bloom much this year so I am transplanting them before they die off.

The purple tulip is Rem's Favorite. The apricot one is a parrot tulip. The double yellow is Akebono, the Lily-flowered yellow is West Point. And the rest are French tulips---tetraploid hybrids with French names. All were planted 3-5 years ago and have returned to some degree. I may lift them this year and replace some with new bulbs. It's an ongoing experiment of mine to see how many seasons they will last.

I'm really enjoying everyone's pictures. I love doubles and split/open cups so Irene Copeland and Palmera are right up my alley.

My bulb blooming time is mostly over ::sob::, but I have last years new acquisitions all blooming at the same time. Here are the last stragglers:

Hoop Daffodil/Golden Bells (very late from my understanding - it is blooming with the buttercups and dandelions so it looks like a weed from afar)

Same clump, farther away

Two other newbies (edited to add names)

Double Smiles

Curly Lace

Here are my Delnashaugh Daffs, with some All That Jazz tulips behind them. I only ever plant a few tulips, because I'm afraid of attracting chipmunks. But I goofed on layout, making a rectangle parallel with the driveway, instead of alongside the daffs.

Hi Rose, those daffodils are on my short list for next year. It looks like they are sturdy and facing upright. Also, do you find they increase for you?

Hi, posierosie,

I took that picture on Apr. 22, but they'd started blooming a few days before. We had light rain yesterday, and today (Apr 27) is the first day I've seen then drooping. This is only the second year, and I suppose I should count them, but they certainly look like they've increased. I like them because they're interesting, and because of the peach-pink color, but the center doesn't have a well-defined shape.

I'm also very happy with how well the tulips are holding up, still. The color was drab when they first opened, but the pink has become more vivid.

Here is Queen of Night, Dreamworld, Rem's Favorite, and Jackpot. Tulips are my absolute favorite.

Fritillaria imperialis

Lilies, Ballerina, and Orange Princess on the far right.

Tripartite.

Angel Eye.

Queen of Night has multiplied and returned well. So have Ballerina, hostas, and the lilies.

Queen of the Night has such a beautiful dark color. Is it a mid or late blooming tulip? I think they will contrast really well with White Triumphantor? What do you think?

Rose, from your pic, I don't see anything that looks like a "goof." Your bulbs look happy. And I do like those daffodils.

arleen, nice bouquet. I like bringing flowers inside and should bring in some tulips. Adding the bleeding heart is a good idea. It looks so cute.

maureen, I don't see many people growing Fritillaria. They're unique looking. I only see them in public gardens. Do they take a long time to get established? I also like the artsy angle you shot your picture from.

madamw, Your Ballerina tulips sure look pretty! Your lilies are farther along than mine. ...We should all do a post for pics on the lily forum when the time comes.

Karen, I think Queen of the Night would go great with your White Triumphantor, and they'd really set each other off like we saw in redwolfdocs post with QotN and Ivory Floradale. But, yeah, will they bloom at the same time? That's the question.

@sandyslopes - Thanks. They're doing fine, and I'm very happy with how long the tulips have been lasting. I just think I should have laid them out differently. It's not a big deal.

Here's some later tulips getting started...

Ballade

Marilyn, starts mostly white and will get more red streaking. Hopefully, I'll get another picture later on to show that.

a species tulip, so they're small-ish, Tubergen's Gem

Another patch of the same, but they've gotten just a little bigger over the years. I'm not sure if that's why one flopped.

Muscari, Valerie Finnis ..I enjoy the light blue color, a true blue.

Narcissuss, Chromacolor with Forget-Me-Nots in foreground and Doronicum (Leopard's Bane). The Chromacolor has dwindled with only singles coming up here and there.

I'm loving all the smaller / species types tulips that have been posted this year. I was going to go for Darwins in the new garden, but I am rethinking.

Sandy, you asked the question I was also thinking of for Maureen. I have looked at the fritillaria group in catalogs, but have no idea how regular gardeners fair or how well they play with other plants. I have seen none in real life and, believe me, I have no idea what my neighbors house looks like, but I can describe their gardens in detail!

Karen, Queen of Night and all lily-flower tulips are late flowering, coinciding with the jonquils like Tripartite. You may want to pair QON with Tulip Green Star, White Triumphtor, or white fringed tulips.

Sandy, I love your pictures! Now I will definitely try Marilyn---what gorgeous color combination! It will pair well with the late jonquils.

I got twobittle ones to show off!

Thank you, madamw! I will definitely try this combo. I already have WT and have been looking for another tulip that blooms at the same time to pair with them. The fact that QotN return every year which WT also do every year is wonderful!

my beautiful Hosta pips I think and my one single tulip.

Akerman, I sense that you're catching the good kind of "gardening" bug.

This shape that the lily flowering tulips start out with is what has me hooked on them.

Marilyn tulips

I like how this pic shows three stages of these tulips.

These develop nice coloring

Mariette tulips

My east hill needs some reworking. I hope to give it more love this year. In spite of that, these have come back since I planted in the fall of '07.

Some of the first tulips I planted in 1997 were sold as bouquet flowering meaning more than one tulip on each stem. Well, they didn't really do that, but all these years later I still have these that come up as singles.

Just wanted to show the Tahiti daffodils are still going strong after some really wet and windy weather. They've lasted a good while.

My red Apeldoorns were at their peak last week and now are more one-lips than tulips. :-) I dig mine every year, because I use them to divide my garlic varieties from each other. When the foliage and stems are carefully left on, the bulbs dry and cure beautifully. Planted too shallow they will multiply hugely, but deep enough in a rich garlic bed they bloom very nicely. I started out with 30 four years ago, and now I only keep the biggest 60 to 100 and have a huge number of smaller ones. They are ready to dig well before the garlics are, and I try to get them up about the time the foliage is just beginning to yellow. I then dry them on the allium racks and they are ready to store dry long time before the garlics and onions start to come due. Since they always go back into well fertilized beds they keep size and bloom up real well.

Sounds like a pretty looking garlic bed in the spring. You must be growing a lot to have to divide between the different kinds. It's good to hear how your tulips have multiplied. I need to try some Darwins.

This forum was generous to me with lots of good advice on how to humanely keep squirrels away from my bulbs. I started planting for the first time only a couple of years ago. Here are a few today:

Geranium tazetta & Yellow Cheerfulnes (double) daffodils, 'Blue Magic' muscari

Fortune and Actaea daffodils, L'Innocence hyacinth, 'Blue Shade' windflower

Beautiful! The hardscape really enhances your flowers display. I do have squirrels in my neighborhood but they seem to be well fed from acorns from oak trees grown in many neighbors' yards. They don't bother my bulbs very much.

I was hoping there would be more spring pics. Beautiful display of daffodils, so full and so many flowers! The hyacinths are nice accents, also. I'm glad you were able to make peace with your squirrels.

my server has been down but I made sure to keep the pictures of the hostas and tulips that were just coming out. I have one plant I can't figure out. my little hosta pip that unfurled first is so cute. my tulip I have a picture I took daily. wish I could do a slide show. please help identify what the fourth picture is,

That last picture looks like it might be bloodroot. It should have white flowers that can be single or double.

Sandyslopes, what do you have growing on the rocks behind your Tahiti daffodils??

I love tulips; they are my favourite cut flower! I love all the different shapes and colours they come in. Redwolfdoc, I love your hellebores - they are gorgeous! Thanks for posting all the beautiful pics everyone. Here are a couple of mine.

DandyLioness, that's phlox subulata growing in the rocks.

Sandyslopes, on your photo under "My east hill needs some reworking...", there are pink tulips with, I think, forget-me-nots. What kind of tulip is it?

Everyone's photos are beautiful. Lovely to see it all.

vesfl, those are lily flowering tulips called Mariette. I got them from Van Engelen.

These are the last of my late tulips.

Lily flowering tulip Elegant Lady had more pink but years later is more white with a touch of a pink sheen to it.

Another lily flowering tulip called Mona Lisa.

Wood Hyacinths in front of hostas and a heuchera.