Spring bloom in CT.

Elf and roarah, beautiful! The snow looks like blooms of some sort!

The snow is beautiful. I like appreciating it from afar.

Today is the first day of the year my automatic drip is supposed to run, but I turned it off because everything is doing just fine without.

I've had a Clematis on our mailbox for the past 30+ years (2 houses). New house does not have a mailbox. :(

Current home:

Nothing blooming yet. It is 32 degrees, and raining.

Beautiful clematis, Allison! Such a pretty shade of purple. Is it fragrant? (Some cultivars are.) Artemis, hopefully spring will spring soon for you!

Not from my yard, but we saw these in Atlanta this weekend and I don't really know what it is. Looks like a climbing rose? I am not a gardener so pretty clueless but it kind of looks like the yellow blooms Carolina Girl posted. Thoughts?

That sure is a beautiful rose, ruby! I think that’s buff beauty, but not sure.

These were just gorgeous and found at the historic Swann House in Atlanta. Buff Beauty looks very close if not it! Thanks nutsaboutplants.

I 'm thinking that photo may be a Lady Banks rose.

Oh my gosh, thanks Carolina Girl, Lady Banks looks very, very close! I will move this over to a garden thread so as not to further hijack this one!! Thanks for the help.

An update on spring in my yard - nine inches of snow yesterday and a low of 7 degrees tonight. Ugghhhh..... At least the sun is out and it's melting off the driveway.

Not much going on here, still freezing. This Bradford Pear is the only thing in bloom, the orchard is just now starting to bud out.

But we have tons of rabbits, all having babies! One is sitting under the tree, the baby took off.

Below is one of the two fairies we have in the orchard, which the grandkids call The Woods. :)

I'm not home, but I'm hoping things have progressed beyond this. First day of spring, and first grass widow in our woods:

Love the crocus and poppy pics! Both have to be grown as annuals down here.

Practically everything has leafed out. Pecan trees are the last and I noticed today on our drive in the country that even they are getting it done. Azalea blooms are only a memory. I spent 6 hours last Saturday selectively pruning our old Indica azaleas.

Kitchen garden is planted, except for a few more hot pepper plants. I should have put them curbside with my extra tomato plants.

Visited a local farm today and came home with a nice little haul. Strawberries are the sweetest I've tasted all season!

Cindy Mac, I seeing fresh produce!

Ruby, that's a Lady Banks rose. I've had them and they are so pretty and hardy too.

Nice pics everyone. My yard is full of snow. But it is beginning to re-melt... Hopefully for good this time.

Finally some azaleas after several years of late freezes and no blooms. ( I planted all these btw)

Wow, that must feel wonderful, bumblebeez, after having planted all those azeleas and not having see them bloom for a while! They look beautiful.

I'm nutsaboutplants too! The azaleas are from 15 to 10 years old in the ground so they have bloomed some but not the past two years. Oh, the trials and pain of gardening! Weather, weeds, pests, fungus; when something does do well it is usually deeply appreciated!

Love your azaleas, bumblebeez.

We had 6" of snow on Easter. It melted off this past week, but here's my front yard (and neighbor's house across the street who is very fond of yard art) just now, April 8 in north Missouri. In case you couldn't tell, those are lovely blooming daffodils in the foreground. *sigh* Will it never end?

Still snowing here....

Sorry to hear that some folks still have snow on the ground. Today, in South Louisiana, it’s in the 40’s, which is unheard of in April.

This morning my Ring doorbell detected motion outside my front door. I looked out to see two ducks walking around in the freshly fallen snow on my driveway. I felt so bad for them - we should have at least brown grass and some puddles and melted ice on the ponds by now.

I love this thread -- such beautiful photos!

We ran 10 to 15 degrees below normal temps in winter, and we've been running 20 + degrees below normal temps for spring. We *finally* had a day in the 40s yesterday, and today in the 50s, so the crocus are opening and there are bees everywhere... buzzing like crazy. :)

Happy Earth Day!!!

The crocuses are gorgeous, party-music!

I was at the Chicago Botanic Garden last Tuesday, and nothin'. Nothin'. Nothin'. Not even tinges, hints, or suggestions of green on the shrubbery. Went again Friday, and squill! A few daffodils, and 3 tulips. In my yard, I see the very early hope of the start of the forsythia, will take a picture Monday. Spring is a good 3 weeks late here, but no more snow!

April Fool! They're fake! It's the only way I could get spring on my front door. Here's what my forsythia really looks like:

Here are my unenthusiastic crocuses, they look like they are afraid to open up too much lest it snow again:

But I do have a springtime surprise: a squill! Yes, a solitary squill. I don't know where it came from, but it seems to like the Stella d'oros lying in wait for summer.

Finally mid-60's and sunny - spring is here! We still have snowbanks where the plow piled things up but other areas are melted. The golf course is looking a bit green. We were shoveling the piles onto the driveway at our lake cabin as I'm not sure when the shaded snow piles will ever melt and my perennials are buried under there. So nice to be outside without a coat!

Here are some tillandsia that are blooming

Lars, how gorgeous! That’s quite a collection of rare and beautiful plants!

Ha, bpathome, you could have fooled me! ;-)

omg, Lars, your garden photos always astound me. We grow entirely different things around here. Spring is finally happening and things are just beginning to open... it feels so good. :) Not great photos, but here's a sample of what's in bloom here now. The Pulmonaria just opened today, so the colors aren't really showing yet.

After a nice storm (and nitrogen-rich lightning!) spring has arrived. The shrubs and some trees leaves are starting to open a bit, the grass is greening up, the Bradford pears are in blossom! Forsythia in sunny spots is "forsoothing" :) Mine, however, is in a shady-ish spot so looks only a tad better than 2 weeks ago.

BEFORE:

TODAY:

My star magnolia, too, isn't as splendid as the ones on the south sides of houses, but I like it!

The lilacs behind it may open in a few weeks. In the meantime, green grass :)

bpathome, I had the same feeling yesterday.... so glad to finally see some green grass!!!! :)

Bpathome, glad to see things coming to life in your neck of the woods!

A fox that close to the house! Wow.

Nutaboutplants, lots of foxes around here. You've probably seen some of the posts on Nextdoor. Someone snapped a few pics of a vixen (mom) moving her kits. Apparently, that's something she'll do every few days.

We're slipping into summer a little sooner than I'd like, but that's the way it goes. At least there's a break in humidity for a few days. Kitchen garden tomatoes are doing good. No blush of color yet, but it won't be long. Hot peppers are just starting to form little peppers.

Beautiful Cindy! Yes, I’ve seen posts about foxes on nextdoor and have seen them myself around the LSU lakes.

Finally getting spring around here. I posted this on the KT, hope it's ok to xpost here, but I thought it so pretty. It's especially nice to finally see green in the grass and even some green starting in the trees.

Our ‘Spring’ has gone from the 50’s and 60’s to the 80’s rather quickly. The spring flowers have been a bit late in some cases but really showy this year.

Annie, that’s one beautiful tree! Outsideplaying, love your clematis and the other flowers (peonies, irises, cowbells?)! Simply lovely.

Here are my peonies!

Waiting eagerly for my 7 hydrangeas to burst into bloom!!! They are covered in buds.

This isn't my backyard (luckily), but it is nearby. We're currently experiencing terrible flooding due to rain and spring melt upriver (there was a lot of snow in the northern part of our province this year, and it all eventually flows down through here). The water has actually gone down about a foot, it peaked late last week. We took this photo yesterday flying into the city. The river is normally to the left of that tree-line, the road follows along the river on the right of the tree line. The building with the green roof is a roadside fruit & vegetable stand & bakery that I visit a lot during the summer. It been a devastating spring for many folks in this area.

Beautiful, nini! Love that color. Do post when your hydrangeas bloom. Wow, smh, that’s serious flooding.

OMG those peonies! Love that flower, want to plant more this year! Here is one I ran across from last year. I call it, "Allée anyone?" Middle tree is a baby magnolia that had an initial run-in with the local deer. It is doing much better this year. Hot pink tree is "Prairiefire" crab apple.