Whats blooming?

lxskllr

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I've seen pics of desert flower events. Looks cool to me, but I bet it's really special when you live there. Going from shades of tan most of the year to an explosion of color. That's the kind of stuff I'd take off work to look at.
 

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We should have seen ossoberry start to bloom weeks ago...nada. Trillium and yellow violet should be starting now...nada. Too cold and wet.
 

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I don't think it's azalea. It's got mahogany colored leaves that persist through winter.

I found a Delaware white azalea also that year. It had an explosion of blooms, and then we had that nasty hot dry spell, and it died. Kinda pisses me off. I've generally had a Darwinist approach to plant care. I figure if they can't handle survival on their own, they don't deserve survival. I'm not used to paying attention to weather in the context of plant health. I wish I had paid attention in that case, and gave it some water. It was a nice bush I got free.
 

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Good call! Maybe I never did figure out what it was, cause that name isn't familiar in this context. Most of what I found that time were various viburnum species. I also got a boxwood I planted on the farm, and a forsythia I took home.
 
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