Tiny White Flowers

Plants with small open flowers good for short tongued pollinators are blooming.

 Above Tiarella cordifolia 'Brandywine' from my friend Teresa is more a foliage plant but these foamy flowers are a delight for pollinators & me. Learn all about these plants from Tony Avent.
http://www.plantdelights.com/Article/Tiarella-Foam-Flowers


Serrisa foetida has done well in my garden although it does lose it's leaves in winter; in spring it bursts into bloom with a profusion of single white flowers. Around the corner from this shady garden the rabbits eat the small divisions I put in there almost to the ground. Each year they leaf out on the shrubby stubs and gain stature but no flowers yet. Maybe next year. This plant is often used for bonsai due to it's tiny flowers & foliage.

Bus shelter, telephone & post boxes with Daffodils

Near Chipping in Lancashire UK which is in a designated 'place of outstanding beauty' on maps I saw this example of how the British delight in making gardens everywhere.

Shrubs on steroids?

After 2 weeks away some of the spring blooming shrubs are in full bloom. 

At the park side in morning sun & afternoon shade the Viburnum macrocephalum 

or Chinese Snowball as it is know has 6 inch balls of bloom. It has grown far too tall & I plan to cut it back after flowering. This shrub, which is protected but trees & other shrubs, often opens a few blooms early in February. I haven't tried cutting this but it looks like total bridal bouquet.

The lime green color when it first opens is most attractive.

https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/all/viburnum-macrocephalum/

These dusky magenta flowers belong to  the hybrid Calycanthus "Hartlage Wine' developed at NCSU. They are big & beautiful but like so many hybrids no perfume is present. The native Carolina allspice or Sweet Betsy, it's parent, is renown for it's sweet scent. Whether this is an improvement depends on your sensibilities.

https://extensiongardener.ces.ncsu.edu/extgardener-jcra-introduces-hartlage-wine/