First bloom of the New Year 2011

Happy New Year!!
how beautiful.

I will have a Christmas Cactus bloom in the near future .. but it’s just a bud thus far.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Jroot, that hibiscus is beautiful! So fresh and spring-like.

I don’t have any blooms in the house right now….Christmas cactus done, no geraniums, the brugmansia is just recovering from a severe pruning and the armarylis bulb I rec’d for Christmas has only been planted.

But.....a walk around the yard, freshly emerged from several feet of snow, revealed some surprises.

First, a primrose, alittle worse for the wear….

And the Flowering kale and cabbages that continue to surprise me

-- 'To plant a Garden is to believe in Tomorrow'

Very nice Jroot, my first blooms of the year happen outside and actually most people classify it as a weed, although I have never had anyone identify what it truly is. I love this time of year because I get hundreds of them in my yard and gardens, so small and so fragile. Here are a couple of close up photos, and yes those are blades of grass in the background.

If anyone knows what this magnificent little flower is I would love to find out.

-- My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ~H. Fred Ale

Look at all those lovely flowers! Thanks for the photos; they are all beautiful. OttoH, I can’t help you identify that flower but I would be happy to have it growing in my yard too.

-- "To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." M. Gandhi

Jroot I don’t know how I missed this thread but that hibiscus is just beautiful.Love the color.
Iris the kale looks great.So colorful for this dreary time of year.
Otto could this possibly be cyclamen.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more