very nice, my yard barely has blooms, just tulips and the bleeding hearts. I am so jealous!!!

Karen

OMG...what a gorgeous yard. I want that very look, hopefully with all the WS flowers I'll get it finally. Great job..beautiful. I'm @ 120 south of Chgo and have nothing to speak of yet. I'm jealous!

Beautiful photos and yard. Amazing the difference of a few hundred miles. My primrose and pulmonaria are blooming but all my dicentra are just forming buds. 'Ivory Prince' helleborus is full of blossoms. Will have to take some photos as it is very beautiful this year.

I love your white dicentra, the blossom is so delicate and unusual. Will look for that one. Can you tell me the variety? Have you seen the dark red one? Should have gotten it when I saw it but I was already over budget for the day. The name was so simple and common sense that I didn't think I would forget it, but I have forgotten. Will look for it at our nurseries.

Nice to see the wide yard shots. I had imagined your yard full of large trees. Are they along the perimeter?

Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for compliemtns!
teequiltbarbie- I would not know what this garden would look without WS. Dicentras, pulsatilla, yellow blooming euphorbia, primulas are all WS.
Mnwsgal,
This area is my "sunny" area, front of the house. Trees are just not captured. I have plenty of people walking by and taking pictures of my garden, am a poor photographer yet but decided to capture few blooms.
Dicentra is WS from Gardens North seed mix so am not sure of variety, I usually collect plenty of seeds if you want some. I am not that much of botanist to figure out difference between eximia or formosa. You are looking for Dicentra Luxurant which has dark red blooms. Since it is a hybrid I do not know if it will come true from seed.

Your yard is beautiful!!! I am green with envy over your
gorgeous euphorbia. I had no success with mine wsing for this year. I was crushed! Did you do anything special to get it to germinate? Thanks, Sybil

Thank you, Ellen, I would love to have some seeds from the white dicentra, the elongated heart and fringe are exquisite.

Your posting motivated me to take photos of my yard and I found a few surprises. I had forgotten that I planted ginger beneath the apple tree and there it was poking out of the mulch.

Hopefully I will have some time later today to edit and upload photos.

Very pretty, love your front garden!

What? No lawn? In suburbia??? Horror!!.......lol.
Beautiful, Ellen.

But you still have bare spots!!!! :-D

Love that no-lawn look. You got me started thinking where is the next logical place for me to dig up--or, rather, smother-- some more lawn!

Ephimedium is new to me. I just read about it in a catalog, and here it is in your garden. Did you winter sow it? Where did you get seed?

Aren't those Japanese maples almost like another flowering plant in terms of the color they offer, especially in the spring? I love the harmonious combination of your spring flowers with that rich burgundy.

It will be nice to see the next season in your garden, hint, hint.

hepatica

Wow, gorgeous pics! I'm seeing several varieties I haven't grown that I'm thinking I should give a try. Everything's so full and lush ... in zone 5! I would say I have zone envy, but that doesn't make sense.

Is that last picture Pulsatilla? I'm so hoping for some sprouts in my milk jug of those, but nothing yet. I've heard they're slow to germinate.

My goodness, how pretty! What is the name of the flower in the 4th picture? I really like it!!

I really like the Euphorbia. I hadn't cared for it until I realized I have a perfect spot for something that's a tall groundcover. I like the way yours brings a different color to the garden.

Come on people, post pictures.

Sown from collected seed on Sept 11, 2008. Overwintered in the hoophouse as tiny seedlings. 14 survived.
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Wintersown Dec 21, 2008. Germinated in January. Planted out in early March. Survived snow, frost, and 90 degree heat after planting out. 3 survived.
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Store bought. The only petunia in a 6-pack of begonias.
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Wintersown. Planted out in March. Started blooming 2 weeks ago. Non stop since.
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Wintersown late February. Planted in window boxes 3 weeks ago.
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Direct sown in late February.
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Store bought 2 weeks ago. Wintersown seedlings withered away. Tiny grass like sprouts. Very poor development.
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The knockouts.
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I've got a lot of things that are just starting to break.

Wintersown in Dec, planted out in January.
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But my absolute favorite blooms of all are on my Burstyzn tomatoes. Some Rutgers and Green Zebra too. None were wintersown.
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Thank you both for the eye candy, the gardens are gorgeous.

Mary

Both beautiful.

Karen

Just gorgeous! Love the no lawn look :)

Mo_girl...I was wondering the same thing; sure look like it to me. Like you, I'm still holding out hope for germination, but think I may have sown them too late; not enough cold strat. time I'm afraid :(

I have posted my spring photobucket album on the gallery side as didn't want to add more photos to this thread. Not as much blooming for me but had to share my hellebore photo.

Token, my guara seedlings are not grass like. I am growing them inside under lights. Will pot them up tommorrow and take a photo. Got my hoop house up but it is still empty. Hope to get plants in their tomorrow, maybe some of my extra tomato seedlings and some of the Cherry Rudbeckia that has just germinated. I've got a lot to do between now and Tuesday and gardening is getting slighted. :(

I love that linaria and the color of your bonus petunia. That is a new tomato for me, great photo of the blossoms. Will look it up.

Vera & Mo_girl, I ws my pulsatilla vugaris in Feb last year and had great germination. Don't have the date written down, just a yes, so it had to be after May 15th, by then I had too much planting out to keep track of germination date. Things seem slow here this year. Sowed more this winter and they have not germinated yet. Some varieties take longer than others. If they don't germinate this year, keep your containers another winter.

to answer some questions-pulsatilla is on last picture. I found it strange germinator- sometimes it is just straight warm couple of weeks and sometimes complete dud, even from reputable company. I grow four different varieties and they all never overwhelming for me- small clump of flowers- but they are so cute I love to have more. They are ephemeral for me so they will go away in the middle of summer.
Flower on the 4th pic is epimedium rubrum- most common variety of epimediums. Those plants can get real fancy and sell for $100 each for newer varieties. Bloom is so delicate but at same time it is a tough plant and likes dry shade.
LOVE euphorbias- while many of them are little on the wild side and tend to spread there are not many plants so reliable and easy growing. I treat them as ephemerals too- once they stop blooming I pull them out, knowing that next year whatever root system will be left will produce new crop of bloom for me. This way I have something else late blooming like anemones growing in the same spot and repeating bloom and show later on.
Token,
those nicotianas are great, I so love them, got this year 3 trays, just finished planting them out. Thank you for Burshtyn tomato pic- I am growing this variety this year first time- something to look forward to, wonder if it is good tom, mine were not the most robust germinators but I have got a few from Trudi's seed.

The guara I planted was from Park Seed. I got three or four seeds to germinate and they were tiny little slivers of grass. It's smaller than daylilies and not a one came through. Even the indoor started ones didn't make it.

The Burstyzn tomato has been one of my best growers. The Rutgers were way ahead, but they're catching up. My beefsteak haven't done much, but I'm sure they have a late DTM. The San Marzanos are blooming too.

Lovely pictures. What is the yellow flowers I see in the
1st & 9th photos?

Mary

I love your pics Linda every year they just amaze me...:)

Mary, that's the Euphorbia. Not sure of the variety.

Lovely pictures, lovely yard. It is always great to see what other people are growing and how they look so I can plan for next year.

Becky

you are right, it is euphorbia cyparissias, one can always count on it showing up and blessing you with spring yellows. Lovers of this plant will really appreciate varieties that Plant World seeds offering- most of them borderline hardy for me but I am willing to try for next year.
I am also very very pleased with Danova series primroses/ Swallowtail perennial seed/- very easy, reliable and long good bloom at time when every bloom counts.

That white dicentra is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. Your "yard" looks wonderful and packed full.