Ohio buckeye. love the huge buds

You mean the 6-pack in the frig?

Seriously tho, my white oak sports fuzzy-pink expanding leaves, but still too early.

Aesculus parviflora buds looking like corn cobs.

tj

Aesculus Homestead is well past the "corn cob" stage here

A seedling under the above tree

Northwind Maple

Northwind Maple

Rainbow Japanese Maple

Been traveling for work this week and got home to lots of buds.

Prunus virginiana ’Sucker Punch’

Aesculus flava, first time its going to flower

Acer x ’Cinnamon Flake’

Gymnocladus dioicus

Someone post a hickory!

This bud's for you.

But it'll have to be a previous spring's shellbark hickory bud -- still too early for it right now.

Serviceberry.

tj

Rising Sun Redbud

Not sure what this is but it is cool looking.

chamaegardener - I'm not sure on the ID - maybe you can post a photo of the expanded leaves?

A couple photos of opened buds: Sassafras flowers (5/11/22)

Maackia new leaves (5/12/22)

Chamaegardener might have a Euonymus alatus there.

Arbordave, sassafras flowers so early, even tho they're not overwhelming, you can see them plainly against the bare background wherever they are. Sorta like spicebush, tho that's just a low bush.

Twelve days in May. Rising Sun Redbud sat looking like a sad stick for awhile.

Then buds May 4:

May 12:

May 16:

It is pretty amazing how quickly these leaf out.

I forgot that I had these images from back in early May, from a tree I planted in 2014 in Wyandotte Park, Louisville KY.

New leaves emerging:

Mature leaves:

Quercus dentata 'Pinnatifida' - the Cutleaf Daimyo/Japanese Emperor Oak...

June 5 update to my previous post above showing bud progression on Rising Sun Redbud:

Paragraphs?

Bud break on conifers…

Abies lasiocarpa ’Glauca’

Picea pungens ’The Blues’

Abies concolor ’Compacta’

Taxus baccata ’Standishii’

Picea pungens ’St. Mary’s Broom’

tj

TJ, do you get your evergreens mail order or in person? Can you suggest sources?

Picea meyeri:

Picea mariana:

Cornus sericea:

Paeonia Lactiflora x Paeonia Officinalis: (lower left) 7 flower buds.

Syringa reticulata: (lots of flower buds this year).

NHBabs- The vast majority were mail order and, sadly, I don’t believe any are still operating. Locally I have bought from Johnson’s Nursery in Menomonee Falls and Minor’s Nursery in Milwaukee, but it has been a few years.

tj

NHBabs: a wholesale location and a retailer who are conifer aficionados on this side of the country are Brotzman's Nursery (wholesale to the trade) in Madison OH, and B. C. Nursery in Batavia OH. Nice people, nice plants - and they will likely steer you to where you can find what you want if they don't have it. I know Tim Brotzman will ship; I don't know if Chris Daeger does (since I see him monthly).

Thank you, TJ. I will check them out. I have one local recommendation from new neighbors in WI, but I am hoping to find some good sources for conifers as well as other woody plants within a couple of hours of Madison if possible.

Thanks for the Ohio recommendations, VV! i have a friend in OH I can use as a base while shopping. I am in the process of moving to WI, so any suggestions you have for a bit further west would be lovely as well.

OMG - and I use that acronym advisedly!

Mom is from Madison (Middleton) and Dad was from Kewaunee, so traveling to Wisconsin as the disjunct family population from Kentucky was the way of life of my youth. That somehow continued into my second career as an adult in horticulture and landscape architecture. The Klehm array of nurseries was my connection to northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, and Mike Yanny at Johnson's Nursery in greater Milwaukee was an offshoot of that (as TJ has noted).

I don't know of other conifer sources up that way, but as I ruminate on that subject I will pass along any epiphanies that strike me.

This was one of my favorite threads last year. Too early for buds yet in Chicagoland area, but pics to follow when available.

Yes, there ought to be a new start - Buds 2023...

Easy to miss unless you look closely, the red stigma/styles of American hazelnut

arbordave, yes, I look for those among the faded male catkins. Strangely, my Amer hazelnut production has been declining last couple years even tho the bushes are larger and seem otherwise healthy.

Yellow buckeye, Aesculus ’whatever-they’re-calling-it-now’ 😉

We’re in a warm stretch right now and some things popping.

Fagus sylvatica

Umbrella magnolia bud just expanding, but pic shows-off the tree's bark.

Turned around 180 deg, and saw the impressive work of a piliated woodpecker on a dead basswood snag.

Ample rain followed by ample warmth and my Prunus sargentii went from nothing to bloom in a heart beat.

tj

After a late snowstorm, where everyone ESE of St. Cloud got rain and everyone (me) NNW had almost a foot of wet heavy snow. I went out into the yard to check on a few things because the snow is nearly gone (again). Was surprised to see Tulip sprouts coming. These aren't planted up close to a building (which helps them start growing earlier) so the frost must be out. :-)

Appears the peony came through it's 4th winter in the ground.

Bill - I just checked my peony, which was planted last spring from one of those Wal-Mart dried up root balls (cost like $2.00 lol) and mine too is starting to poke through the soil. I am new to peonies, but they seem tough as heck. It sure feels good to see signs of spring after such a long, heinous winter.

I just looked at my regular peony (Paeonia officinalis) which was a gift that I transplanted from another place, a few years ago. That too is beginning to show some tiny sprouts although it's generally a week or two behind the red charm hybrid.

Yes, been long and tough here too and we're a couple of weeks behind weather wise.

A couple of weeks ago, we had above normal temperatures and a huge snow melt, then more snow so, there's moisture in the ground. And everything is coming out of dormancy.

<happy dance> ;^)