Some cuties I planted yesterday 🤩

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Cherry, lilac, fuchsia, salvia, and snapdragon—maybe

As I said a couple of weeks ago, we had an amazingly mild winter here in Seattle, a disturbingly mild winter. And spring. As predicted, the cherry tree exploded into puffs of pink. This was taken a few days ago:

Blossom is about to start falling. In a week, the lawn will be carpet of pink flowers.

Meanwhile, our two lilac trees (okay, one is ours, and one is the back neighbour’s, but it grows over our deck) are also getting in on the act. The one that grows over the kitchen deck is paler than the one that in the secret little north garden (not pictured) but it makes the deck smell heavenly.

Also on the kitchen deck, we have tiny yellow flowers that come every year but whose name I can never remember. The geranium—an annual, not the perennial kind; it was not supposed to survive the winter—has grown huge, massive leaves reaching everywhere, but no sign of flower buds.

However, we have our very first fuchsia buds swelling, which delights Kelley—she loves fuchsia (we have so much fuchsia, fuchsia of every kind, on the kitchen deck, the back deck, the front flower bed…)

And two tiny flowers growing among our Hot Lips salvia—little red pinpricks among the green:

And then there’s these, which I’m really, really hoping are snapdragons—I love snapdragons—but which I suppose could also be some kind of salvia:

Meanwhile, on the back deck: nothing. Just a few green leaves growing here and there in pots. We’ll see what transpires…

Some of the native woodland flora I planted in a shaded area of the front garden are in bloom. Shooting stars (Primula meadia) made their first appearance in bloom in the garden, and, at least this particular plant has white blossoms. When I purchased the roots from Jung Seed, the photograph in the catalogue showed deep pink flowers, but the description noted that the flowers may appear in shades from deep pink to white. The wild geranium (Geranium maculatum) has become an old friend, and each year, the number of blooms increase, as well as the length of the flowering season. While shooting stars do not seem to last very long, the geranium flowers should hang around a few weeks. But well before summer, the floral display will be over.

#garden #gardening #NativePlants #ShootingStars #PrimulaMeadia #Geranium #GeraniumMaculatum

Got some new pots for the overwintered geraniums... Looking forward to getting them ready this week.

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Es wächst, sprießt und blüht allerorten.
Hier wieder ein paar Fotos aus meinem Garten.

Von links nach rechts:
1. Felsentulpen, Schleifenblumen und Vergissmeinnicht
2. Geranium macrrhorhizum 'Czakor' mit Hasenglöckchen
3. Nahaufnahme Geranium macrrorhizum 'Spessart'
4. Gruppe von Geranium 'Spessart'

#garten #fruhling #Geranium #Storchschnabel #goodnews

The most punk thing you can do in times when a handful of people want to dominate all the news and posts: make room for those who deserve it. The world around me is bursting with springtime beauty.

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