What do you see on your garden walk, 2016?

Cypripedium parviflorum flowered for the first time.  It is "caged" to keep it away from rabbits and squirrels -- too precious!

Bulbous plants range from large to small.  A sample:  Lilium x dalhansonii, Nomocharis aperta, Allium acuminatum.

Just a few more pictures:  Incarvillea delavayi, Calochortus palmeri var palmeri, Iris 'Roy Elliott'

very nice Claire, thanks for sharing

Wonderful stuff, Claire.  I didn't realize there were any Cypripediums with such a large leaf subtending the flower!  Interesting, but quite a distraction for the flower itself.  I just love all the twists in the sepals!

OK I will attempt to contribute.

Glaucidium palmatum f. album

Erigeron compositus 'Railroad Ridge'

Androsace villosa

Polygala chaemebuxus

A few more from the gardens

Arisaema erubescens

Arisaema tiwanense

Arum italicum

Primula 'Francesca'

Trillium grandiflorum multiplex

Physoplexus comosum

Nice, Harold.  I have to keep copper mesh around mine to keep the slugs away.  It's slug candy to them.

...Claire

Too hot to play outside so I bore you with some more garden observations

C. Kentuckiense

and a few more

Planted as T.Parryi but obviously not

Walkin' around again today:

Great colors in a summer garden.  Love the clematis.

...Claire

In our winter garden

cheers

fermi

After a freezing rain....

Nassella tenuissima

Yucca nana. The odd curls are the fibers that peel off the edges of yucca leaves, now coated with ice.

Janet