Blooms!

I am inconsistent in my Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day posts, hosted by Carol, at May Dreams Gardens, but I am excited about spring, and wanted to share what I have blooming.  While I'm thinking about 60 to 70 percent of the plants in our yard are U.S. natives, some, locally native, non-natives seem to be in the majority for this time of year.  After looking at the photos, though, it is pretty close that at least the kinds of plants are about that proportion, even though there are more of some of the non-natives, such as the hellebores right now. 

Some of the plants are about finished, such as the pasque flowers and tulips.   I love the spent flowers on the pasque flowers.

Prairie smoke geum is one of my favorite natives.

I am tickled to have picked up several colors of hellebores over the years, and they are doing quite well.  I love the early spring blooms.

The rabbits have not eaten the prairie phlox down so far.  I am pleased to see a few blooms.

The groundplum milkvetch clumps have lots more blooms than at my last post.

Here's another hellebore.

I don't remember if this iris clump has been this short other years.

The perennial geraniums are just opening their blooms.

Bergenias are showing color.

As the daffodils are finishing up, the grape hyacinths are at their prime.

This is rue anemone, a spring ephemeral.

Merry bells is another spring ephemeral I enjoy.

I planted this false Solomon's seal in a tub, since it is a spreader.  It looks like it will need to stop spreading now, since it has no where else to go.

I have been enjoying munching on the violets in my salads.

These are from some salad greens that overwintered.  A friend said this is a mustard of some kind.

It was hard getting a good photo of the bleeding hearts, so I included one from farther out.

Virginia bluebells are one of my favorites.

I hope spring is going well for you.  Because of burning going on in Kansas, our air quality has been poor, so I spent more time inside this week than I wanted to.  I am looking forward to spending more time outside this weekend and next week.  It is supposed to be pretty nice out!