The Drabas

I feel like I say it every year, but I'll take the yellow drabas over yellow forsythia any day.  Above is draba lasiocarpa.

Draba rigida is much tighter, of course.  This one grows across the street at Neighbor Ray's.

This is draba novolympica growing in tufa.  It must be happy; it set seed and had a baby below.

Draba siberica is a little weedy looking, but it sure is bright on a cloudy April day.

True Believers

Walking by one of my troughs the other day I wondered what the hell I saw out of the corner of my eye.  Turns out it was the new buds of pulsatilla pratensis 'Bohemica' covered in fine droplets of mist.  What a bizarre sight.

I'm in love with saxifraga 'Pluto' and I don't care who knows. 

Despite the April (ahem) snowfall, these guys believe that it's spring.