Beautiful pictures, aimeekitty, I especially like your lilac, there are some that can grow a certain kind of it in Texas, but I sure haven't had any luck!

We're getting our spring flush of roses, aquilegia, and wildflowers are starting to bloom! Iris is getting ready, not quite there yet...

Oh how lovely!!! You must really be enjoying your spring

Those yellow poppies look wonderful, besides everything else.

Wow, I love that spirea. Do you know the name of it? Thanks for sharing your beautiful garden.
Renee

Lovely!

I really love the CA poppies!
That Iris is gorgeous!

My irises are beginning to bud and a few to open.
My roses have NEVER looked so healthy nor so robust. Covered in buds! Old Blush climber is blooming her heart out. I am so pleased.

Don't you just love those dear little lady bug beetles? Bless their buggy little hearts!

~Annie

Those 2 roses are such yummy colors! And I too want to know that name of that spirea...it reminds me of Prunus triloba, which I have difficulties getting to bloom consistently above the snowline. So if I could find a similar looking spirea that was hardy, I'd be thrilled!

Do you know what variety of spirea that is? It's gorgeous - and PINK (my fav).

tina

O.M.G. I think I might be in love with your Janet Inada rose. I'm such a sucker for roses in that apricot/peach/dreamsickle shade. I wish I could take a tour of your garden right now, it loks like it is ablaze with color already!

I think your double pink spirea might actually be a double Prunus glandulosa, or pink flowering almond. Yours looks MUCH better than mine- some years it hardly has any blooms. It is so neat you have a bit of your mom's garden in your own. ;-)

Lovely, lovely, lovely! Thanks for sharing with us...
CMK

it's funny actually, I think you may be right about the spirea. I saw a pink flowering almond at Huntington gardens this weekend and it looked a LOT like my "spirea". All I know about my "spirea" though is that one of my mom's neighbors in Charleston, South Carolina, gave her a branch of it, and she rooted it and it became a nice big bush. And then she rooted a branch for me and we just shoved it in my horrid alkaline clay ground here and it turned into the small bush you see now within a year or two. I'm really pleased with it. It seems to root really easily? (though I've never personally tried rooting anything, but my mom didn't use any special technique or anything...)
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that's actually the first bloom ever on Janet Inada. I planted it last fall in a pot from a tiny little band. It's grown a fair amount. I'm in love with it myself, I wish you could smell it! :)

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Here's another photo of that Daughter of the Stars Iris bloom before it faded:
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And here's a photo of the flowering almond at Huntington Gardens (only the photo is mine, not the plant.) The tag on at least one of the white ones said "Prunus glanulosa "sinensis" Chinese Flowering Almond"
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ah, sorry I forgot, one of the flowering almonds is called "prunus glandulosa "alba plena" dwarf flowering almond" I'm not sure which is which from my photos.

Yeah, that is Pink Flowering Almond.
I grow those too.
Got my start from a cousin when she had a moving sale years back. Now, I have several growing around the garden.

You have a lot in bloom right now. Everything looks lovely. The rose is beautiful. I also agree that is flowering almond.
Cher