Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?

[Daniel]

@Bernard said in Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?:

Nothing.

Enchanting.

[Steve Miller]

Not exactly a bloom, but we emerged from winter this week and I found this little tree. Yikes!

It’s a dwarf weeping Altas Cedar. It came through the winter of ‘24-‘25 just fine, but the cold snap this winter may have killed it. What? Don’t cedars grow in Alaska and stuff?

Nursery guy says it’s probably fine - that it will drop the brown needles and grow new ones. Sure enough, the branches are still pliable so maybe there is hope.

[AndyD]

Prunus in beautiful flower

[Daniel]

@bernard As I've said in other threads, I've since discovered we're also in a drought. It's getting worse. It makes sense, in retrospect, because not only did we not have any storms during hurricane season, we had the least amount of rain last year in eight years as far as I can tell. I had almost no weeds in the rock garden. I had to weed it a few times. The previous year, the weeds grew up past my knees and kind bent over. I'm guess this was some type of grass. The plastic under the rock beds is almost as old as time. I won't have to weed again. I'll have moved long before it becomes necessary.

Oahu, on the other hand, is having catastrophic flooding.

[AdagioM]

The Akebono cherry trees are blooming on the Portland waterfront.

And the teacup magnolias are riotously beautiful.

[wtg]

Oh, wow!! Absolutely gorgeous...

I'm jealous. All I have coming up are chives, which are nice. And dandelions, which are not.

[RealPlayer]

Field garlic and crocuses.

[Steve Miller]

@wtg

I have chives as well.

And weeds.

[Daniel]

I just realized I'll never have anything for this thread. I don't have a green thumb. My grandmother has one. So I know the difference. My college girlfriend's comment when first seeing my house was, "Who does your landscaping?" I did now the grass.

But I'm going to be a city dweller. I'm going to be living in an apartment building for the first time.

I would have a house and garden as my first choice. I would ideally have one and a city apartment. I'm hardly unique in that way.

I'm now going completely off topic, to say that I'm really looking for a Florida condo that is in a cement block building but doesn't have a dated, cliched, vacation themed interior, and doesn't look like a rental apartment.

I know I'm lucky to be able to do it and, although nothing will take away my joy in it, I'll have to wait for a thread on house plants.

Disclaimer- I own only two house plants and both live outside- a cactus I've had for eight years and an aloe vera plant a neighbor gave me a few years ago. I've decided not to take either one of them because they wouldn't survive.

[AndyD]

Your cactus may flower if conditions change. Neglect it then water it then neglect it and see?
Could also be structural plants or trees rather than colour. Bamboo, pampas grass, are attractive.
And there must be public gardens or planters?

Here there are currently masses of yellow daffodils everywhere, on verges and roundabouts where the council have planted; also on minor roadsides where house owners have planted a single line for a mile .

And in planters in towns there are fragrant hyacinth, one of my favourite flowers.