Thanks for letting us know! I, too, have been waiting for the announcement about the pecan trees.

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

Let's have a little friendly disagreement Mantis ...dandelions versus violets. Gimme violets any time . First they are pretty . Second as you said you can just scratch them out of the garden if you don't want them and even when they become an adult clump they pop out easily . Dandelions on the other hand ( and there are more than one variety of dandelions some with a single tap root and others with a tap root and various side roots ......these are killer to get out ) are the biggest bane to man ......medicinal properties aside. Their roots go for forever and when you are trying to remove them just when you think you have got it .......the root snaps off ........the plant then generates more damn dandelions. I have a tool that goes at least 8 inches into the ground and even that one sometimes can't loosen a dandelion root enough to pull it out intact . I also live surrounded by farmer's fields which they spray within an inch of their lives but when they grow hay , much of it is dandelion and there is noooooooooo getting away from them infesting my gardens. Give me a violet any day!

I can’t resist a few more, starting with Brunnera ‘Jack Frost’ with a Heuchera ‘Cherry Cola’: And some fiddleheads on the interrupted fern: A little toad friend hiding in one of the grasses: And finally the Trillium sessile, its red flower is open now versus a previously-posted pic: