See how optimistic I can be?
Back in the old days, in the last century, spring used to start right about now, with alpine plants blooming, but then a curse fell over the garden, a curse that apparently can only be lifted by installing heating cables under the ground. I’m not exactly sure what’s happened to winters here, but those long spells of temperatures in the 60s seem to be a thing of the past.
Oh well. I scanned some more of Cindy’s slides. Their original purpose was to have plenty of slides to show when the occasion arose. It took about five rolls of film to produce one “acceptable” slide, a process I never really understood.
Fritillaria meleagris
Gentiana acaulis hybrid, probably with G. angustifolia.
Gentiana, or Gentianoides, algida on Loveland Pass
Gentiana algida
Iris reticulata ‘harmony’
Iris reticulata ‘Springtime’
Iris reticulata ‘Natascha’
Lewisia rediviva, the bitterroot
Lewisia tweedyi
Linum spathulatum
Linum hirsutum subsp. pseudoanatolicum, Rosa kokanica above
the miserable gardener 
That must have been one finnicky photographer, but the keepers are truly stunning. They lift my spirits no end.
She was. More tomorrow.
Those linums are to DIE for…and what a clump of Fritillaria michaelovskyi. Hard to believe it was once thought to be extinct. Do you still have the Rosa kokanica? I remember that from Kazakhstan…it is stunning!
More, MORE MORE! I want MORE pix!
See my post on R. kokanica a while back. The linums were from Pavelka and Jurasek.
The gentians are stunning. Have only tried to grow one once, I wonder if I would have any luck if I tried again, maybe on a plant table?
Visitor here from Portland, said he wished he could grow gentians. I thought everything grew there. Maybe they like having their hindquarters frozen off every winter……