The hyacinth flowers from this spring have all died back, leaving stalks of seedpods that are turning translucent and releasing their little black seeds.

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The hyacinth flowers from this spring have all died back, leaving stalks of seedpods that are turning translucent and releasing their little black seeds.
These wild-strain sunflowers top out at three feet tall, so they aren’t as impressive as the giant forms, but they’re lovely nonetheless, and later in the season the seeds should provide some good eating for the birbs.
Our little rose bush is going full blast.
This looks like it could be some kind of scary monster, but it’s just the growth tip of a flower emerging in one of my planters.
The little rose bush a neighbor donated to the garden last year has just bloomed for the first time this season.
That’s no moon — it’s a giant purple allium!
We took a trip to Metropolitan Plant & Flower Exchange in Fort Lee and picked up a bunch of bedding flowers to be added to the garden planters and the treebeds here and around the neighborhood, including the following:
Squills, daffodils, crocuses, hyacinths, tulips — nearly all of the flowering bulbs have emerged to put on a show.
I snapped this photo of this pairing of crocus flowers for my wife, as her colors are purple and white.