Patty's Plum Poppies

Patty's Plum Oriental poppies with forget-me-nots  in the background

Such a pretty color!

First year, first bloom

Lovely Lilac

ORANGE!

The orange Oriental poppies are in full bloom!

They're especially glorious in the sunlight. 

I love the delicately crinkled petals.

New flowers emerge daily.

 

The poppies are surrounded by foxglove and phlox that will show their colors later in the season.

Orange poppies with pink and purple columbine

RED!

The first of the Beauty of Livermere Oriental poppies!

Soon there will be more poppies, and just beyond them, lovely white daisies!

Huckleberries, Blueberries, & Strawberries

We have lots of flowering berry plants right now, and soon they'll be producing luscious summer fruits!

Evergreen huckleberries in the front yard gardens

Evergreen huckleberries in the back yard perennial border

Sunshine blueberries in the front gardens

June bearing strawberries (and flowering shelling peas) in the back yard square foot bed

June bearing strawberries along the back walkway

Alpine strawberries

Alpine strawberries and Bluecrop blueberries in the pie garden

First Fruits

The bees did their good work, and now we have lots of tiny pears, peaches, plums, and cherries growing on all the beautiful fruit trees!

Rescue pears

Orcas pears

Frost peaches

Hollywood plums

Glacier cherries

Bluebells and Jacob's Ladder

Papaver "Allegro"

First Oriental poppy of the season! 

Tulips in the Perennial Gardens

Pink Ollioules and purple Queen of the Night tulips with emerging Allegro Oriental poppies on the right and foxglove and perennial sunflowers in the background

Ollioules and Queen of the Night tulips with one tall Pink Impression tulip

Emerging perennials in the front yard side bed

Full view of emerging perennials in the front yard side bed

The first of the rhododendrons with some red Apeldoorn tulips

Muscari Armeniacum, primroses, and columbine with newly emerging calendula seedlings

Muscari aucheri "Blue Magic" with emerging breadseed poppies, alysum, bluebells, and foxglove

A few tulips and daffodils in the perennial garden by the pond

Pink Impression tulips in the back yard perennial beds

Pink Impression tulips

Spring Flowers in the Front Gardens

A lovely view of so many flowers and colors in the front yard gardens

Tulips in the center beds

Forget-me-nots and Darwin hybrid tulips in bloom, with foxglove and columbine soon to follow

Tulips and azaleas with apple trees in center bed

Tulips after a big rainfall

Apeldoorn Elite tulips

Japanese maple tree with a few Apeldoorn tulips along the walkway

So much spring color!

Tulips in center bed with euphorbia and emerging bluebells

Pink Impression tulips under maple tree shadows

Fun with Tulips

 

Tulips in front of the wood shed make for a little garden whimsy...

Strategic tulip planting--no need to get to the firewood in the springtime!