My cherry trees are past the peak of blooms, but the flowering cherry shrubs are still building up to their maximum bloom. This is from one of the shrubs. The Kwanzan cherry trees (ornamental flowering trees) are also building up to their peak right now. I’ll take a photo this week. The forsythia is passing…
I’m happy to report that my Rocky Mountain Maple baby made it through the winter. This is a native maple with nice red foliage in the fall. I raised it from seed last year — it was the only seed of maybe 20 that sprouted. I collected the seeds from trees up American Fork Canyon….
My Vinca minor is blooming pretty well now. I need to get in that area and weed out some grass and weeds real soon, but at a close-up level like this it looks pretty good. I transplanted some of the creeping phlox from my front yard to the back last year, and it’s doing well…
Last fall, I planted an unknown mix of tulips that I got from the final clearance sale of Thanksgiving Point’s tulip bulbs. They were just in baskets, without any sorting of the bulbs for color or flower form, and since it was the last day, I got something like 200 bulbs (including daffodils) for $10….
This should be a warning for me next time we have warm spring weather, and I’m tempted to plant tender things outside before their time: The KSL weather guy is calling it “weather whiplash” and it is surprising how cold it has gotten after last week’s heat! We had temps in the high 60s and…
Our baby boy was born on April 6th. What a blessing! This photo is so cute, even though it has those medical devices attached to him. He’s OK, but he needed a little monitoring at first because of low blood sugar.
I have a few plants I dug up from my mother-in-law’s home before she sold it. I’m going to post a message in the GardenWeb perennials forum to see if people can identify them for me. I think this one is creeping thyme or Thymus serpyllum, but I’m not 100% sure. Update: the word from…
Hey, I forgot to write about this yesterday: the Japanese maple seeds I had stratifying in the fridge are beginning to sprout now! I took them out of the refrigerator about a week ago, and I put some in the little six packs in my seed trays with a lid over them. I left a…