Beautiful tulips! I get my fix from TJ's or WF. Tried growing them a couple years. It's a commitment down here. They have to be dug up and chilled before replanting.

Fun, where do you live that your lavender is already in full bloom? Would love to see pictures! Lavender is a favorite of mine.

Tulips are my favorite. Yours are beautiful. Thank you for sharing!!

Hi, Cyn, I'm in southern California. I haven't been able to post pictures since the move to Houzz...so frustrating.

My darling hellebore are blooming, along with daffs and hyacinth. The magnolia trees are out in full force. They are too early for their own good every year. I planted some pansies. Lots of buds getting ready to open. Too dark for pictures now, but I will try soon. Spring is so early this year, not that I am complaining, although I thought I'd have more time to finish indoor winter projects.

Fun, so jealous! I just started spring break and snow is coming tomorrow! Sheesh.

My front yard tulips are up but the ones in my back yard are just barely breaking the surface. We had very few daffodils this year, probably because we had a warmer than usual winter. My roses are not yet budding either-they're just barely leafing out, and last year at this time I had some roses start to bloom. I think we're not going to have the blooms this year-maybe the summer flowers will do better.

Almost forgot to post these few. The saucer magnolia bloomed a couple of weeks ago, and was the best blooms in a long time. The early daffodils are done but I still have some mid-season varieties blooming. And the hellebores are going crazy. I always love the snowy white pieris blooms.

Beautiful pictures. We are currently getting covered with pollen.

amck2, I am packing my bag. As soon as you let me know where you live, I'm on my way!

Yesterday morning at the cottage :'(

Allison, the pine pollen is about to start here too. If the freezing temps don't out a hold on it for a day or two anyway. It's the one thing I hate about this time of year. The elm pollen and those dang Bradford and callery pear tree pollen has been about to kill me lately.

Our water lilies are starting to bloom in the lake behind our house. This picture is taken through the lanai screen so it's a little blurry but I think the white blooms still come through :)

Why o' why must I be tormented like this....?!

;-)

Here you go, Faron - my side yard this morning.....

Oh dear, amck. So sorry. I bet you want to throw snowballs at those of us having spring.

My yard looks like amc's this morning.

Outside playing, what is that plant in your last pic?

cattyles, it's not that bad in March, but here in NH we've had snow like this in late April. Now, that is depressing!

My GDD's BD is tomorrow. We've had every kind of weather on her birthday. One year, kids were skating on their ice rink . Three yrs. ago with temps in the '80's we celebrated with a backyard BBQ wearing sundresses & shorts.

Spring in New England!

Front and back yards at my house southern Maine this AM. ALL of the schools and some businesses are closed. I took these about 2 hours ago. I did have crocus blooming and the yard has been snow free for at least 3 weeks up til now.

Here are my early green buds seen through snow a on a very typical New England spring day.

Beautiful pictures!

Our weather has been all over the place. We had weeks of temps in the 80s, yet frost this morning (31 degrees). Sadly, we had a tornado recently, and a good friend 15 minutes west of us lost his house. :( Spring in Texas can be beautiful, but devastating, too. The hailstorm TR mentioned killed several animals at the Fort Worth Zoo.

Around my yard (roadside wildflowers should be coming up any day now, can't wait) ...

Daylilies about to bloom:

Bradford Pear blooms:

Salvia (stayed green throughout our mild winter):

Daylilies in front yard:

This was how we welcomed spring this a.m.

Tibbrix, that is Pieris Japonica, either Mountain Snow or Mountain Fire, I can't remember off the top of my head. I love it, and it's deer proof if that matters to you. There are some dwarf varieties, but mine is in partial shade and it has not gotten very big, about 4'. Love the green & bronze foliage too. If you are in zone 5 you should be able to grow it.

That's not a very nice 'welcome spring' for our friends in the NE!!

MizGG, we are getting the same - freezing temps last night after being in the 70's, so I don't know what this will do to the tender plants coming up like my Clematis. I think the daylilies will be ok as mind don't have scapes yet. Pretty salvia! Is that 'Hot Lips'? I have that one I think, but it's just now putting out it's green leaves.

OutsidePlaying, I can't remember the name of that salvia ... I always mean to keep the tags in a scrapbook to remember them, but never do! It's about 11 yrs old now. My Salvia Greggi bloomed all winter. :)

Gorgeous pics ! If it wasn't for the pollen mess I could really love having the windows open to the breeze :( Our azaleas and a late Camellia are really putting on a show today. Our crocus are done and I don't have any daffs at this house. My roses are just starting up so will wait till we have a new thread on that !

outside our bedroom windows in the back garden:

outside the DR windows in the front:

late camellia:

anise:

ornamental blueberry:

The first leaves of spring..........

Mayflowers - those pink tulips are the prettiest I've ever seen. Do you know the name?

No spring to speak of yet here in CT. But I did make a pretty spring bouquet to cheer up some dinner guests yesterday:

Spring is almost over here, the mock oranges are at their zenith and so is the live oak tree pollen, a light rain is falling and causing it to cover everything in green furry yuckiness.

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Christine (the water fountain POs left behind) looks awfully naked these days, she used to have a trellis behind her with jasmine growing over it and the top half of her but hub got tired of it strangling the nearby plants so he tore it all out last Fall. We don't use it as a fountain and a couple years ago I put potting soil in the bowl intending on growing small annuals but mostly only weeds thrived so undid that.

Beautiful pictures everyone! I mowed grass, for the first time this year, on Saturday. Should have finished it today, but we've had a couple of days of rain, so the yard is soggy again. Daffodils I picked for the Easter dessert table:

What the Easter Bunny left behind:

Ghostly, where do you live? I'm in Louisiana. Our live oak has finished dropping leaves, now it's tassels. Next will be caterpillar poop.

Beautiful daffodils Mamagoose, love all the other Spring pics above too.

Near Houston Cindy, the drizzle is bringing down the last few leaves and the tassels are in full swing here, looking forward to Electíon (our lawn guy, fitting name for this time of year lol) to come and suck them all away:

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You don't mulch with them?

We never have, just had 3 yards of a garden mix sandy compost put on all the beds a couple weeks ago, the tassels blow around and stick to your footwear and track wherever you walk, and the leaves just get hard and don't break down well.

The POs before us had the lawn guys blow the leaves into the beds, took a few guys (and many lawn bags) to get the years of them removed before we could start replanting the beds that run along the fence lines.

We have one large live oak (trunk in above pic) and the neighbor on our left has two with canopies that spread over that side of our yard, we get most of their leaves and pollen as well as our own (such giving neighbors lol).

Dh chops them up with the mower and I use them in various flower beds where I don't want to pay for pine straw.

The POs before us had the lawn guys blow the leaves into the beds, took a few guys (and many lawn bags) to get the years of them removed before we could start replanting the beds that run along the fence lines.

Huh. And down here we beg, borrow, and steal them to work into our sandy soil before planting. I don't know a gardener in FL who wouldn't have been thrilled to have them.

Live oak leaves, writersblock? I don't mind any other tree's leaves in the beds but live oaks' just don't decompose. Maybe they are good for sandy soil but with the clay down here they just hang around forever.

Live oak leaves decompose just like pine straw does. I have to replenish the ones in the flower beds every year. We also add them to the compost bins. You're throwing away a valuable natural resource.

Make good use of live oak leaves

Totally agree with CindyMac. They're wonderful soil amenders.

ETA The local waste authority used to give oak leaves to anyone who wanted them, then they realized how much money they could be making and now they charge. Still hardly ever have them because demand is so high.

Thank you, ghostlyvision. Well, it's definitely spring--I got the lawn tractor stuck in the lower pond spillway this afternoon. I didn't start out in the spillway, but by the time the tractor stopped sliding, it was sitting in a few inches of slimy green muck. Good thing I was wearing my barn boots. My sweet neighbor ran over and offered to push, but I told her we'd wait until my son-in-law came home. I get the darned thing stuck at least once every spring, so now that's out of the way, and my neighbor and I had a nice visit. ;)

This happened to me yesterday. Even though I'm in So Cal, apparently we aren't ready for spring and summer yet.

But we ARE getting sprinklers and plants after four years without!

We have about eight Oaks here, and pretty soon the tassels will be all over the place. I love Live Oaks, too bad they only grown in the south. We never rake the leaves, we let the wind do that for us. lol. Acorns galore!

Ghost said she has clay soil, not sandy. I can understand why Live Oak leaves won't break down in her flower beds.

There's a large Mulberry tree behind our house and when it loses leaves in the Fall they blow over the house into my flowerbeds and now the beds are perfect!

Live oak leaves do take awhile to decompose, but they turn soil into black gold!

DD and I spent last week in NYC. The daffodils, tulip trees, and forsythia in Central Park were starting to bloom, and were so pretty. Even had a little snow, too. Macy's flower show was also gorgeous! Here are some not so great cell phone pics.

Jana, where was the last picture taken? Do you know what flower that is? Love it!

Oakley, looks like poppies.

My pink crabapple is just showing buds, no flowers yet. The Brandford pears have been blooming--we've had some wind, and at times the falling petals look like snow.

Love the barn scene, Mamagoose...btw, you could call California Psychic Hotline to get your tractor 'un-stuck' heh heh (have you seen those commercials? Can't believe those kind of crooks are back at it again).

Oakley, those are poppies and that pic was taken in Castroville, a small town near San Antonio that was settled by people from Alsace. It's a fun place to visit.