End of the Early Spring Flowers

Yesterday, I deadheaded the spent daffodils and ranunculus (individual flowers don’t last very long).  The rosemary flowers are almost gone.  Around the area, there are purple piles of petals beneath the wisteria.  I can’t even remember the forsythia, it was so long ago.

There are just a few daffodils left.  The one whose name I couldn’t recall has a few flowers left, and big seed balls on the ends of the spent flowers.  I remembered what it was – Chromacolor.  There are a couple Campernelles left here and there, and some jonquilla simplex and canaliculatis in the woods.  In among the Campernelles, I have a couple of mistake daffodils that have just bloomed:

The ranunculus just keep on blooming and are stunning.  I had never grown them in the garden before – now I am hooked:

The hyacinths are all long faded, their stalks left in the garden only for their maturing seeds:

I have never tried daffodils or hyacinths from seed, but I intend to this year.  There are hundreds of these pods maturing in my garden.  I saved daylily seeds last year and have some new plants started.  I doubt I’ll ever become a master hybridizer, but it is fun to see what offspring the bugs and I can come up with.