Isn't it nice to finally see some flowers blooming. I love pansies but to buy them in spring here is to waste money as most of them seldom last much beyond late May due to the heat. I saw a Quince in bloom at a nursery last week from a distance and it sure caught my eye. Do they produce fruit for you?......The Cactus is lovely. I have a small addiction for C&S and some of the flowers on Cactus are every bit as beautiful as other plants......Hooray for spring!......Maryl

We have two flowering quinces and one does occasionally produce a few fruits. Bob planted a quince tree last season. We'll see what we can do with them with it starts to bear.

The pansies and violas we plant eventually look pretty bad for us too so we tear them out and put something in their place. I love them because we usually can enjoy them for quite some time before the hot weather sets in.

Love all the spring flowers and colors. My flowering quince is long gone, of course. I love the double petal you have-mine is single. I also have a white one that needs to be moved-it is under a pine tree and has limited blooms each spring. And I really like your seedling daffodils! I would be buying those, too! My iris for the most part froze in full bud and I will have only a few peonies as they too froze. Most of my viburnum has dropped the petals-I must take a picture-looks like snow on the ground--but I have lots of daylily scapes now so it won't be long I hope! So fun to have spring prolonged by these lovely pictures from northern neighbors!

Kate

Olve spring. All the blooms are lovely

kay

By the way, Nancy, it looks as if we are going straight from about a week of spring to summer. Mid eighties for the next two weeks.

kay

Maryl, I have never tasted a quince. Bob informs me that the flowering variety is not considered edible. We planted the food variety but it will be a long time before it produces fruit. From what I have heard, the fruit is usually cooked. It is said to make fine jelly.

Kay, I think you are right about summer. We were afraid the weather would do that. It's rather hard on the plants, especially the spring bulbs and trees that like more moderate temperatures.

Nancy

So nice to see things are moving along in Indiana!

Sherry

We have a friend who gave us a bunch of yellow daffodil seedlings a few years ago. They are now putting up a big display in a bed along the road. They have slowed some of the traffic. Enjoy, folks.

Isn't that nice when that happens. Our dafs have been over for a month and in a couple of weeks or less, the heat should start to roll in and then I will long for Daffodil days.............Maryl