Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, 15 April 2010

Yes, it's also Tax Day, but at least Bloom Day gives me the chance to look at the happy, natural things around me that come free (or close to it). And there's SO much to see today that I couldn't NOT take a mess of photos to bore you. :-)

Here's what's blooming today:

• Nasturtiums
  
• Coral Bells
  
• Geraniums
• Calendula
• Impatiens
• Columbine (non-native varieties)
  
• Roses
• White Solanum Vine
• Purple Potato Plant
  
• Salvia Spathacea
  
• Some Purple-Flowering Shrub (If you know what it is, I'd like to know, too!)
  
• Sulfur Buckwheat
  
• Ceanothus
  
• Sticky Monkeyflower
  
• Blue Elderberry Tree
  
• Poppies!
  
• ... and weeds...
  

I'm particularly excited that my ~5-year-old Prunus ilicifolia (Holly-Leafed Cherry) has actual buds! This is the first year for that, so I'm stoked.