So beautiful, Ingrid. Thank you for posting pictures. No roses yet here. No iris or sea lavender yet either.

Just gorgeous! My iris have bloom stalks but no blooms. No rose blooms either except for a couple. Just nice buds.

That Wild Edric's bloom is huge! Love the combo of plants. So, so pretty!

Lovely. Diseased foliage! You should see mine!

I particularly like the iris, and the combination of the sea lavender and Wild Edric is charming.

I think the hot to rain to hot to fog and damp is an issue for many of us. But I am still enjoying the blooms.

Lovely as usual, Ingrid.

Your spring is so much more advanced than ours here in zone 5 Chicagoland....here we just have the very beginnings of buds showing on the bare canes, and temperatures still are getting down to near freezing. It is nice to see the pretty flowers! Happy spring!

Beautiful spring pictures, Ingrid and Anne. Thanks for posting.

Ingrid, your iris look wonderful with the roses.

....aah, some more pretty gardens.... of Ingrid's my favourite is photo no. 5... but they are all so good to see as ever...

...nice to see a member with Leontine Gervais, you don't hear much about that one and I rarely see a photo.... I notice Anne you are growing it up a tree,....I once grew it up a Eucalyptus where the blooms would hang down gracefully against the blue foliage...

Anne, I enjoyed seeing your lovely spring flowers that we never see here. They have such a fragile beauty.

Krista, the irises are so good with roses, adding different and contrasting colors and shapes. The reblooming ones are especially rewarding and they're easy enough for even me to grow.

Very beautiful Ingrid and Anne! I especially love your Romaggi Plot Bourbon!

Thank you, LG. It's finally beginning to grow since we installed drip watering, and the delicate, shell-like blooms are really rather special.

I hope S de St Anne works out for you, Ingrid--we planted one this past fall, and I'm already a firm adherent! Lovely, clean foliage in that nice, dark grey-green of her mother, and despite being less than 6 mos old, she's already on her 2nd flush of blooms.

I envy you your sea lavender, and Anne her wonderful helleborus.

Very pretty, love them all! Nothing like the first flowers (especially roses) in spring. Mine too are starting to bloom, makes me so happy!

I'm sorry to say, plectrudis, that Souvenir de St. Anne's is gone, and it was difficult since it's such a healthy and wonderful shrub. Unfortunately, the sun even when it was in the seventies shriveled the blooms in less than a day. I probably would have kept it anyway except that I had William R. Smith to place somewhere, and I didn't want to put it back in Tea Rose Row where it died the last time. I thought I had another place but then decided it would crowd La France and hang over into a narrow walkway there. I do find the flowers of WRS infinitely more beautiful and wanted to give it the best possible chance to survive this time. The days of roses flourishing here just anywhere are gone.