I tried to copy last year thread. Here it is my first picture of Caroline Constabel. It's hard to take a picture of this one because it's facing my house.

Gorgeous, Socal! Thanks for posting! I am looking forward to see its bloom in my garden now that I have gotten a glimpse of it here.

Congratulations, SoCal! So nice!

Lovely SoCal!

Thank you all! I love it.

Yay! First bloom of the year! Lovely to see.

Congrats So Cal!! That is absolutely beautiful!! Can't wait to see more of her blooms.

Thanks LG, I'm looking forward to the one that facing the garden.

Yay and congrats! Excited to see how the color progresses. I can't wait to see how all these flowers look in real gardens.

Do we need to stake our itohs? I thought they didn't need it?

No, Itohs don't need staking as their stems are much stronger than herbaceous, more like tree peonies in that respect.

I didn't want to take a chance, it's sort of windy here, the win broke one of my climbing rose from the base. I don't want my first Itoh to break. It's an insurance.

Absolutely SoCal, we all protect them when we can! Glad it's working!

Cool. I might have to do the same - we have 50mph gusts pretty regularly.

Yeah, yeah, yeah...so lovely to see SoCal, thanks for posting!

SoCal, let's see an update!

Here it is early in the morning, it might open later.



Here is one that is facing the garden.

Your foliage looks so nice, SoCal. Send more pix when it's open !!

Thanks LG, I will.

More pictures of Caroline, however I don't think I got a perfect photo yet, I have a zoom lens taking pictures of the birds so the picture of Caroline is not as focus.

Photo of one flower facing my window, I had shorter lens, so it was good.



And the one facing the garden, but it wasn't quite open, progressing throughout the day.




Here it is today, but with the long lens

THe color gets brighter as the bloom opens. Very nice, Socal!