Quick – take a look out your window. What’s the showiest thing in your yard right now? Is it a bright red Northern Cardinal visiting your feeder? Holly berries flashing their vivid color among glossy green leaves? The soft green of the first snowdrop or crocus pushing up from the damp ground? As for me, there’s no doubt about it: the showiest thing on display in my yard right now are my Hippeastrum (which most people know better as Amaryllis).
Your turn – What’s the showiest thing on display in your yard today? Tell us in the comments below!
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In our garden: about an inch of snow. Here on the Front Range in Colorado, we’re quite a few weeks off from seeing anything but shades of brown occasionally lashed with the bright white of snowfall. Maybe that’s a reason I’m so devoted to botanical prints!
Well, today — shock of all shocks — it is SNOW on display in our yard. Central NC
Two Robins sitting in the top of my Red Bud Tree chirping away on this February Presidents Day!
Here in Brooks, KY it would be the male Cardinal eatting seed off the top of my dogs house!!! And let’s not forget the Blue Jays eatting her dog food!! LOL
Cardinals and Goldfinches eating at my feeders, can’t decide between the two.
I would have to say all the plants blooming in my greenhouse!!
I have red and pink camellias!
Two small,but very brave crocuses are blooming in our front yard.
Right outside my bedroom window, the Purple Tulip tree is beginning to open it’s buds. Beautiful!
Our birdfeeder and birdbath (in Southwest Florida) is attracting Red Headed Woodpeckers, Red Bellied Woodpeckers, Pileated Woodpeckers, Blue Jays, Cardinals, Towhees, Brown Thrashers, Eastern Bluebirds, Cowbirds, Pine Warblers Mourning Doves, Robins, Catbirds and Mocking Birds….and that’s just today!
Here in Huntsville, AL, the showiest things in my yard right now are the many daffodils that are blooming with more to come. Around town there are several different kinds of Spring-blooming trees. It is a lovely time even though we are still in the throes of winter.
It is still rather brown in Ohio. But my neighbor kids have a very bright blue, green and yellow canopy over their swing set. Soon my beautiful butterfly bush will hide it. Anxiously awaiting Spring!!
Daffodils are blooming at my place in East Texas. Trees are beginning to bud out, like it’s no more winter. We’ll see!
I was thrilled to count around 20 robins looking for a meal under my blue spruce tree this afternoon. I have never seen so many robins in one place at one time before. I live in Scarborough, Ontario and we have had robins here all winter the past few years. Also, the cardinals are singing loud and clear. We have had a very mild winter and I think the birds are a bit confused and think spring has arrived.
My day lilies that are starting to come up.
Nothing but brown grass, be a long time before we see any life, as we live by cold Lake Superior. Later this afternoon, we might see “white” stuff on the ground!
The showest is the Red Cardinal at my feeder. With a mix of white snow and green grass. Also some soft green leaves of the first spring flowers in the garden. I am in Buffalo NY. With a winter like no other, 40 inches less snow than average.
The assortment of birds are awesome in NC. Cardinals are so bright we see them into the edge of the woods. And yesterday I saw a bluebird way down on the edge of the lawn (from the house!!) Beautiful!! And, of course, the assortment of spring bulbs blooming that I didn’t know we had as we didn’t own the house at this time last year. Every morning is a new surprise.
That would be the metal orange flower my daughter (Ashley Paegel) made for me from old plow part! Its winter here in MN but theres no snow just brown everywhere.
Our America flag blowing in the wind!
There is a Sharp-shinned Hawk sitting in my Yaupon tree right outside my window in the front yard. We are in the middle of the worst drought since 1952, with water restrictions about to be elevated from watering twice a week to probably once a week to keep trees and shrubs alive. With temps over 100* most of last spring and summer, Texas lost at least 5% of our trees. We had lots of foxes and hawks in our neighborhood last year trying to find food. The foxes demolished my garden…but it was fun sitting outside right after dark watching the babies play in my back yard.
Leaving Dripping Springs this morning there were so many birds. Hopefully this means spring is coming soon.
I saw some Snow Drops yesterday, and some Witch Hazel blossoms. I took several photos. First time I’ve ever seen them. Totally awesome.
The showiest things in our yard are the deer eating right outside our big picture window and also a partridge enjoying the corn we feed to the deer. Very beautiful sight!!
Even though our winter here in northwestern PA has been very low on the snow amounts, it still is too cold for any plant life. But the cardinals and bluejays give a bit of color to an otherwise brownish landscape.
My many Goldfinches, are getting more yellow! I just love those little birds. Also my daffodials are coming up. We’ve had a mild winter so far, but not over yet!
The lilac, purple and white wind flowers have popped up and look great here in South Texas against the brown background. I am also seeing the beginning of my magenta red buds blooming. Yesterday I saw one bluebonnet bud. They’ll be here soon with all the rain we’ve had.
I saw a red bellied woodpecker.
Hyacinths up about an inch.
Daffodil peaking up.