Lovely roses Haku! Mine are quite far from being blooms - maybe in another month.

Ann

Wow nice shot of ROYAL JUBILEE!!

They're all gorgeous!

lovely roses nothing blooming here..just a snow storm

I've got around 3 1/2 months to wait for blooms. :) So it's really nice to see your gorgeous blooms!!

Carol

Really nice, but 90 degrees already phew!

They're lovely, thanks for sharing!

Oh my. Can't imagine 90's in mid march! But having blooms already?? So awesome! They are all so beautiful. Royal Jubilee is a new one for me this year. Can't wait for the blooms! Cold spell here in Ga :( 20's for the next three nights and everything is leafed out soooo pretty. Heartbreaking!

Woooooweeeeee. Love them!! Don't you love Teasing Georgia?!? She gets huge here and blooms nonstop. Pretty Lady was new to me last year but the few blooms I saw were beautiful. Planted RJ a couple weeks ago so anxious to see her beautiful self. Judy

I wish it would stay cooler a bit longer.. but nope the heat has arrived! Other things blooming in my yard are wisteria trees and vines, lavender, flowering cherry trees, flowering peach trees, dutch irises, orange and lemon trees. Teasing Georgia is full of buds cant wait for them to all open.

Here are some more blooms from this morning.

Pretty Lady Rose - now open for noses to come visit

Climbing Eden - first bloom ever (2 years in ground)

Souvenir de la Malmaison

My Eden was planted a year ago last October and I haven't seen a bloom yet. Good to know that it takes time, but will eventually get there. It will be hot all week where I live in SoCal too, but hopefully cool off next week.

My mini-flora, Butter Cream is developing a spray of buds. This flower bloomed earlier than the rest, so I cut it for the vase.

Lovely! Thank you so much for sharing your awesome photos.

It's been in the 80s here in my area of inland CA so we are probably a couple weeks behind you. The heat is back. The idea that the CA drought is over is gone.

After defoliating, Barbra Streisand was my first one to bud. I was so excited to see a bloom! But then she grew a big cane up to shade that first bud from any afternoon sun! Such a tease! So now that first bud is s-l-o-w-l-y opening.

Hopefully I will have some March bloom photos to add soon !

I have several roses with blooms, more than half have buds, and the others are being slow pokes. Been so busy that I have not taken the time to photograph any blooms . My Spring flush usually begins around the 3rd week in March..... so in a week !!

Cori Ann, I think the rains will come again next week. Thank goodness.

Judy - Yes I love Teasing Georgia, last year my gardener cut back the long canes and she pouted and didnt bloom.. so Im super excited this year seeing all the buds.

Jasminerose - I was worried too about my edens not blooming, I just continued to feed and water.. just hang in there you wont be disappointed.

I hope we get some rains next week.. towards the end of the week tho I dont want the rain to kill the blooms on my wisterias.

Nice rose Arbutus.. I was considering the Huntington Rose... how is it's growth habit for you Arbutus?

It seems to be shrubby, but not as vigorous among Austins as say Golden Celebration. I'd say 5x5 when fully bushed out.

What's blooming in my garden are the normal selection of bulbs, mostly. Here is my very old ornamental crab tree. I'm sure only I can see it, but at the lower left is a Cramoisi just beginning to come out. Its flowers are almost exactly the same color as the crabapple buds.

Jackie

Such pretty photos everyone. Arbutus the color in that photo looks amazing.

What a wonderful place for a bench Jackie! I can just imagine how nice it is to sit there and enjoy your gorgeous garden!

Butterscotch Climbing/Jactan

There were even stronger tan/brown shades than the photo captures.

La Rein

Royal Jubilee (this one is in the ground and wants to be a small climber)

Brilliant Pink Iceberg

It is pretty amazing what a few days of hot sun can do (especially after a rainy winter),

Darcey Bussell

George Burns- when it was cool he was mostly white with a little pink. Now, a sea of red!

Oklahoma -- first one of the year. Absolutely love this rose. Much less orangey than in the picture. I cut this, took it inside, and it's opened more, maybe almost 5 inches across now.

Marie Van Houtte. Last week she was white. Love the way heat brings out the pink!

Tamora. Bloom after beautiful bloom. Sometimes they're even quartered.

Great thread! Thanks all

I agree Sylvia.. a few days of heat and just about all my flowering trees exploded into blooms as did my wisteria.

Beautiful roses everyone... keep em coming

Barbra Streisand isn't looking quite like her usual self in this first bloom, but she still smells divine.

First parrot tulip. Yippee! What fun these are.

Impatiently waiting for Souvenir du Docteur Jamain to open. Whatever isn't fully open before Monday, when it's supposed to rain here, is coming inside for a cut bouquet.

Feast my pretty. Feast!

Climbing Eden

La Rose de Moilnard

Golden Celebration

La Rose de Moilnard

Heather Austin

Pierre de Ronsard

Mislabeled LUSCIOUS, probably SUNSPRITE or SUNFLARE

Beautiful roses Romogen

Cori-Ann - that's a beautiful ladybug! It has sooo many spots. I've only seen the two-spotted ladybug here.

I'm loving all these roses - they make me feel so peaceful. They prove that spring/summer weather is coming.

Carol

Here's a few I haven't shared elsewhere yet:

Moonstone

Honey Perfume

Paradise Found and Moonstone

Cherry Parfait

Christopher Columbus

Pink Promise

Paradise

Apricot Drift with PJPII peeking in the background

Grand Dame

Gorgeous roses everyone!!

Yes nice roses everyone...:-)

Cool tan and lilac coloring of Koko Loco. :)

Blooming this week

Marechal Niel climber

Abe Darby

Quicksilver climber

Non-Roses

Michelia figo...scented like bananas and vanilla

Michelia alba..this one bloom can perfume a whole room! Smells like gardenia,jasmine, and lemon meringue all rolled into one fragrance.

Baby Cacao tree seedling...i love how they look like something from Little Shop of Horrors ...the bean like an open mouth with a green forked tongue lol.

Sultry those are so cool! I have never seen or heard of Michelia. They sound amazing! They probably need more water than my climate can provide, but I really enjoy admiring yours!

Michelia alba is one of my favorite plants ever, it's basically a tropical magnolia. It's common name is 'Champaca,' and has long been used in perfumes. There are other species like Michelia figo, M. crassipes, or M. doltsopa that are being used in San Francisco municipal plantings. M. doltsopa makes a beautiful large flowering tree in milder climates and can withstand a little frost. One tree in bloom can perfume an entire neighborhood. If your climate can grow Southern Magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora), M. doltsopa is a viable alternative:

Michelia doltsopa 'Silver Cloud'

Oh I love that Quicksilver!!! Koko Loko - wow!!

And that tree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Carol

romogen love your photos of M. doltsopa. The flowers are lovely! That is a new one on me. I must look it up right away lol.

I always thought Michelia Champaca referred to the more orang-ish flowered Michelia? I bought seeds for that one a few times but never got any to germinate.

I found my grafted Michelia Alba a few years ago at a little Asian supermarket I go to, named none other than, La Salsa LOL! I don't know why its named that when its Asian foods but they had all kinds of stuff like shopping baskets full of Jackfruits and lots of nice tropical fruit trees outside. Anyhoo, that Michelia Alba was only $20.oo for grafted and they had non-grafted for $15. You don't normally find stuff like that around here and if you do its usually very expensive.

I also have a tree called Nycanthes arbor-tristis (aka Indian night Jasmine, aka Tree of Sorrow) that makes honey scented/jasmine night blooming flowers that fall off in the morning. They are known to be planted around Buddhist Temples. The flowers are white with a neon orange stem. There is an old legend about this tree.

I finally got a bunch of cuttings to root last spring so I have several now lol.

Here's the flowers

I'm so loving everyone's pics! It's been nothing but cloudy, cold and rainy here, so your pics are wonderful to see.

@sultry_jasmine_nights I think you will like M. doltsopa, it will form a magnificent specimen tree in Florida with thick evergreen leaves.

The tan/orange flowered Michelia is commonly referred to as 'Champak' and forms a huge 150 foot tree with tiny flowers! You don't want that, besides, the plant you have of Michelia x alba is more highly prized with a better cleaner perfume. I used to grow it back in the 80's & 90's in SoCal. It was grafted and stayed small at about six feet, and flourished in patio pot culture. It's extremely frost sensitive and too tender for me to grow it here in NorCal, unless I have a heated greenhouse. Back in the day, small grafted plants of M. x alba in one gallon pots sold for $75-$100.

Other tropicals I miss growing are Heliconias and gingers, but instead, I get to grow Gallicas, Lilacs, and Apples....

President Lincoln

Clarke's Giant

Why can't you grow gingers? Some go down to zone 7b-Many of the hedychium/butterfly gingers and the Globba/Dancing Ladies, etc. They don't all need a ton of humidity either. I grew hedychiums and plain old grocery store ginger in Lake Havasu AZ (zone 10 desert) lol. The grocery store ginger bloomed in a pot on our back patio. They do need water.

I love lilacs they smell so good!