April Daffodils for Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day

If late March is for crocuses and hellebores in this little corner of the world, then April is all about daffodils. Sunny yellow and white blooms greet you along the Daffodil Walk leading to the front door.  I bought a box of unmarked, mixed daffodil bulbs so I don't know the name of any of them. I love them all. I planted more daffodils behind the picket fence in Serenity, and several in the garden I call Abundance. Their sunny faces are a wonderful sign that spring has arrived.

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.

-- Ruth Stout

The Daffodil Walk

Daffodil Narcissus

Daffodils in the garden I call Abundance

More daffodils in Serenity

Peeping through the picket fence in the kitchen garden I believe I can see the first bloom on the double daffodil, 'Tahiti', my favorite.

 

Lungwort Pulmonaria and various Daffodil Narcissus

Today  is Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, celebrated by gardeners all around the world on the 15th of each month. I am sure there are lots of daffodils and other spring flowers displayed on blog postings this day. You can visit our hostess, Carol, at May Dreams Gardens to see.  Let's take a walk to find what other plants are blooming in my garden.

 

Lungwort Pulmonaria

Creeping Phlox Phlox subulata

Primroses are blossoming in the cottage garden. Creamy, yellow primroses remind me of England almost more than any other flower.

Her fairies climb the bare, brown trees,
And set green caps on every stalk;
Her primroses peep bashfully
From borders of the garden walk.

-- Hannah R. Hudson "April" The Atlantic Monthly, 1868 
  

Primrose Primula vulgaris

Primrose Primula vulgaris and Grape hyacinth Muscari armeniacum

I must take time to cut some branches of forsythia and add them to my vase of pussy willows on the dining table.

Forsythia Forsythia x intermedia on the bank of Bluebell Creek

Forsythia Forsythia x intermedia peeps over the stockade fence in Serenity

The dwarf trees around the pond are budding or blooming. We plan to open up the pond next week. Frogs are already going in and out of the water where I folded back the netting. 

Snow fountain cherry Prunus x 'Snofozam'

New candles appearing on Weeping spruce Picea abies 'Pendula'

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
-- Hal Borland

Dwarf weeping redbud Cercis canadensis 'Lavender Twist'

I see vinca has appeared in several flower beds. I dislike the job of pulling it out, but it is a necessary task as I try to keep it under control. My mother-in-law planted it. She called it periwinkle and loved its sweet blue flowers. In her honor, I will never totally remove it, although it is so invasive.

Vinca Vinca minor, Peony Paeonia shoots, and Bearded iris

Of course, there are hellebores still. Their pretty, nodding blooms beautify the woodland walk.

Hellebore Helleborus

What is blooming in your garden today? I'm off to May Dreams Gardens blog; maybe I'll see you there. Happy Garden Bloggers Bloom Day.

Pamela x

Forsythia

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