Nature's Magical Renewal

 

I'll come back and finish this post ASAP.  I've got one more rose to get into the ground and it's urgent--95F forecast for tomorrow.

 

Nature's magical renewal is springtime, of course.  The garden sports many fresh new flowers and foliage now.  

2 'Valencia'

3 Hippeastrum papilio:

4  Clematis 'Angelique' (the lavender one) and seedling-of-Nelly-Moser (the other): 

5 Ooops!  How'd the Harry picture slip in?

6 Acer palmatum 'Oshio Bene' waking up:

7 What 'Oshio Bene' will soon be shading again:

8 One of the Itoh Peonies:

9 Clematis 'Wisley':

10 'Tropical Lightning':

11 The grape vine is waking up:

12  Iris and Salvia and Agave 

13  This is the rose that needs to get planted right now--'James L Austin':

14 Planted!   Moving James, I discovered he'd taken matters into his own land--the land under his pot where he waited for a year:

15 Hacked the pot up to get the rose out.  Hole dug:

16 Home, James:

Such a relief--hopefully for James, too, not just me.  Thank me by thriving and blooming, please oh please!
 

17  'Brass Band':

18  Garden Hippeastrum ("Amaryllis") waking up.  This one is called something like "Christmas Present": 

Speaking of Christmas, the Alyogyne 'Ruth Bancroft' has new foliage and flowers again, but still looks very A Charlie Brown Christmas tree-like--bare, small...flopping a bit--hopefully its able to grow new stems eventually and be the beauty it could be.  It was the only one I've ever seen for sale, purchased despite it's poor condition.  

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20  Leucadendron 'Cloudbank Ginny's time to be glorious:

21  The huge mass of Bromeliad had a great winter.  Color is fabulous, not bleached out like it gets in summer:

22  To end, the first flower from new rose 'Light Years Away'.  Beloved picked it out.  He did good!

Now, back to keeping the plates spinning...