Post pictures here of what is blooming in your garden, neighborhood, or park here. This thread is for everyone, not just me.

chasmanthe


narcissus "Barrett Browning"


Hyacinths are not supposed to naturalize here. Mine can't read, so they don't know that.


freesia


daffodil


Jasmine and bougainvillea, both of which would take over my yard if allowed. So would the cape honeysuckle, plumbago, burgundy irises, vinca, blackberries, pepper tree, wisteria...


Kalanchoe fedtschenkoi (well behaved, not a mother of thousands thing)


Aloe gariepensis is just about done

Wow, If I take a photo of my bougainvillea and cape honeysuckle, you all will only see frost burned brown crispy stuff. Well, The cape honeysuckle is coming back. So were the lantana and cannas after I cut back their crispy brown stuff, but that 20+ degrees we had a couple mornings last week browned that stuff up too. The bottle brush, petunias and alyssum are blooming though. Will need to get photos.

Yes, that's your job for tomorrow.

Beautiful blooms!!

Thank you. Here are some from this week. I had to use DH's camera since mine is being repaired. His doesn't have a macro function.

two different colors of sparaxis


crazy gladiolus


calla


jasmine and bougainvillea


a late narcissus

oooooo jasmine and boogie ooooo

Kelli: How did you manage to get glads blooming in March ???

I don't know. That's why I call it a crazy glad. It has never done that before.

Ledger's Variety Crested Iris.....

You'd think I would have noticed that tatty leaf blade before taking this pic...oh well.
I was in a nursery last year and saw this plant in flower and thought..."oh...that's pretty!" Then thought....Hmmm. I think I have one of these. Sure enough, after searching through stuff I found it. This was given to me by crystal 'spin a couple of years ago. If it's not in flower, you would tend to overlook it. Now it's over by the house so I can appreciate it.

Interesting. I've never seen one of those before.

The usual stuff going on here for this time of year...
The echiums / Pride of Madeira...they really are the deep blue purple in color, but I waited too long and the sun is on them now....

The cistus skanbergii...

cistus purpurea...

salvia splendens 'Paul'...

These freesias have been stuck in a large pot with a lemon verbena for years and have really gotten tall this year...why have I not gotten around to planting more freesias?!

Jerusalem Sage/ phlomis fruitcosa...while looking around this a.m., I found my first ever seedling of the phlomis..maybe because I didn't deadhead the spent pods this year....

How do you grow your Jerusalem sage? We had some and they didn't live very long. I don't know if we watered them too much or not enough.

Phlomis does not want much water at all. Mine have been in the ground quite a few years now and get very little water. I tried the pink phlomis years ago and lost it right away...this time I make sure that it (the pink one, Italian, I believe) doesn't get a lot of water and it's doing fine....can't wait for it to start flowering.

Iris pallida


Freesia laxa


some kind of mammillaria


The lobelia are starting to bloom. These came up from seed.


tulips


wisteria


some kind of iceplant


mammillaria "Un Pico"


lemon

some more tulips




babiana


one of many CA poppies


the gladiolia March madness continues


ipheon

(ooogle, oooogle) how luvly (ooogle, ooogle)

An unknown / un-named pelargonium that I'm fond of...

Salvia microphylla 'Pink Blush'....

Polygala myrtifolia....

The watsonias are just starting...