Key spring flowers in your area

[shootingstar]

Well, it's obvious in our area/Northwest Coast that it's cherry trees, (there is a brief automatic slideshow. Let me know if it works. Wordpress just added this feature.) Of course, there are tulips, etc. But the sheer number of cherry trees here is not typical in other Canadian cities in eastern and central Canada.

However there is a part of me that misses sight and spring scent of lilac bushes and trees which are frequent in southern Ontario. I still have a strong memory of cycling out in the countryside and going by a whole row of gigantic lilac bushes. This is well over 10 yrs. ago. But I never stopped to take photos at that time. I was too focused on pumping up the snakey hill.

[redrhodie]

I love lilacs, too. They're usually in bloom for my birthday in May. Right now, the daffodils and tulips are still going strong, and the forsythia is almost done. It's been a good year for flowers.

[Bike Chick]

The lilacs are in full bloom here and their sweet aroma fills the air. The redbud and dogwood trees are adding beautiful colors to the woods and the azaleas and wisteria are bursting with color in people's yards. Our cherry tree is full of leaves now with dried remnants of the beautiful blooms laying on the ground.

[shootingstar]

I love wisteria. Something elegaic to me about them. Maybe it's the way how the flowerheads droop over and the first part of the name, suggesting "wistful." I dunno. I can't explain it.

One thing for sure, to me, it appears the hydrangea flowers are giants in our area. Probably because of the rain, mist, balmy weather.

At the Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton, Ontario there is a large grove of exclusively lilac varieties. It's amazing. Gardens are a 120 kms. round trip bike ride from downtown Toronto. I've done it twice.

[channlluv]

The wild mustard blooms all over the hillsides here in San Diego this time of year, although it's starting to fade a bit now. Legend has it it was spread here by the friars along the Mission Trail as the Spanish were colonizing California.

Roxy

[marni]

here in texas in town it is the ornamental bradford pear trees which bloom white but don't small so nice, followed by an occasional redbud and then a few azaleas. Out in the country it is the bluebonnets which smell amazingly sweet, along with the red orange indian paintbrush and yellow goatweed which don't smell much at all.

marni

[IFjane]

Our wisteria, dogwood, redbud & cherrys are all just about finished. Daffodils & tulips history (almost). Now the flower that perfumes the air is the "snowball bush" (viburnam). Next will be the honeysuckle. I LOVE it when the honeysuckle is in bloom because the entire countryside around here smells of it! It is so wonderful to go on a ride & breathe in that sweet aroma for miles and miles.