My Early Spring Perennial Garden

Oh, it's that wonderful time of year again when the perennial garden springs to life!  This is my absolutely favorite time of the year as I love watching all the plants spring up out of the ground.  Join me, as we walk through my early spring perennial garden.

Crocus are the very first flowers to bloom in the spring.  I don't have many left, and I really need to plant more this fall.  But fall is such a busy time of year for me, and I rarely have time to plant bulbs.  In fact last year I had a bucket of daffodil bulbs I could never find the time to replant, so I just tossed them into the woods.  Sad, I know, but I'm hoping they will somehow regrow there.

Seeing my first crocus bloom is always exciting and fills me with so much hope that spring is almost here!

The next flower to bloom is the daffodils.  I have a hillside of daffodils (so now you understand why I threw the excess daffodil bulbs into the woods).  Every year I end up with a bucket full of bulbs and I have been gradually trying to replant them and grow them in other parts of the yard, but they really seem to prefer this dry steep hillside.

I have several different varieties as you can see in all the photos.

They really are jaw-dropping gorgeous in the spring!

I keep a fresh bouquet of daffodils in the house all season long.  I love their intoxicating scent.

After the daffodils fade away, the tulips begin to bloom.  They are not as prolific as the daffodils but they are one of my favorite flowers!

I bring those into the house too!

In past years I've had problems with bunnies and deer eating my tulips, but thankfully they have left them alone this year.  I am so grateful for them as my heart has broken before.

My yard is overrun with Bleeding Hearts!  They reseed everywhere for me.  But I love these flowers so much!  

The flowering crabs were gorgeous this year, although as always, way too short-lived.

My Lamium is quite the show-stopper this year, although it is completely out-of-control!  This plant comes back over and over again, no matter how many times I dig it up and thin it out.  Oh well, it's a good problem to have as it is low growing and quite beautiful.  It's perfect for areas where not much else grows and is a nice filler plant.

Even though I re-planted so many blue hyacinth bulbs, only a few seemed to have survived.  I've always loved this pretty delicate plant.

Sometimes Mother Nature creates the most beautiful color combinations.  I never put these two plants together myself (like I said earlier, Lamium has a mind of its own), but don't they look great? 

This wall planter is located on my front porch and gets no sun at all.  It's been difficult finding plants that don't mind living here,  even Impatiens struggle.  This year I tried pansies and they thrived!  I don't know how long they will last though.

Creeping Plox is always gorgeous in the spring.

My lilac bushes have just started to bloom.  I brought a small bouquet of the early-blooming variety into the house and I couldn't believe how much the house was filled with its fragrance from this small amount.

My husband and I really noticed how much this yellow bush popped against the red shed this year,  It hasn't always been that vibrant.

Chive reseeds itself so much, and has such a pretty flower I decided to plant some in my front perennial garden.  This garden is right off my kitchen making it easy to run out and snip some when I need it for a meal.

I don't do a lot of far-away photos in my gardening posts because it always just look like a sea of green in the pictures.  But I can assure you, in real life it is much more colorful.  Anyway, here are a few landscape shots so you can see how lush and green everything is.  That is my neighbor's creeping phlox in the distance.

I always like to include a cat photo in my garden posts.  I thought this one was so funny.  Jasper and a squirrel are having a stand-off.  The squirrel has no idea what to do.  He knows he is being watched, so he just froze.  He stayed this way for minutes before scampering away.  😁

 

And that is all I have of my very early spring perennial garden.  I will back in a few weeks with a veggie garden update.  I only have two veggie gardens planted so far plus a strawberry bed.  Once everything is planted I will do that post.

Have a Great Day!  Amy

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