Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - April 2016

Spring has come here in Japan. I spend more time at my balcony.

Let's take a look at what's flowering in my garden!

Hellebore

Oh... The number of plants producing flowers seems to be fewer than I expected, ahaha... 

Okay, I marked red circles on the images to identity them easily.

Firstly, show you the western part of my balcony. Three plants are flowering, including the above hellebore.

Rosemary

Hellebore

And this corner below is mainly consist of trailing roses, but they have yet to produce any flowers.

Can see only tulip here,

Tulip "Spring Green"

This Tulip "Spring Green" changes in color from greenish yellow to white, as time goes on.

I like color changing flowers:-)

And let me show you my favorite area:) I put the hellebore in an iron birdcage, it is full in bloom now.

Hellebore

I built some shelves on the wall, and put a few pots.

Glechoma Variegata

Viburnum plicatum f. plicatum

This Viburnum flower will also changes in color from greenish yellow to white  as the tulip above:-)

Lastly, I would like to show you this corner at the other end of my garden.

Vinca Major

Maybe you cannot notice this viola in the image above. This is flowering just at the foot of Vinca Major. 

Viola "Labradorica"

This viola is a native plant here in Japan, so you can see them growing wild along roadside here and there.
I don't remember planting this, so, a bird delivered its seeds here, I guess:-)

  

Apple Mint

This Reeves Spirea  has many　tiny pink buds which are about to unfold.   This is different species from the original ones. As you can see, the leaves have white spots on them.

Reeves Spirea 

These buds will burst into white flowers tomorrow, I guess:-)

Hellebore

Basically I love the color combination of white and purple, so have been trying to collect plants producing flowers in these two colors.

By the way, do you have any flowers which change the colors as time proceeds?

Happy Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day !