Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for February 2011!
Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 5b garden in central Indiana, we are enjoying several days with temperatures above freezing after days and days of ice and snow and temperatures well below freezing.
These warmer days gave me hope that I would find blooms outside for this bloom day, unlike my first bloom day in February 2007 and again in February 2010 when the garden was snow covered.
So I went outside and began to look in all the usual places. You can picture me leaning over with my hands on my knees to steady myself, peering through the tops of my glasses and through the bottoms of my glasses, and sometimes over my glasses, looking over every inch of the garden before finally spying some little sprouts of crocuses, as seen above.
I also spied these little sprouts from a mixture of bulbs newly planted last fall.
I'll have to check my notes to see what these bulbs might be.
I must have gone outside at least a dozen times on Sunday and again late Monday to see if the witch hazel, Hamamelis vernalis, had started to bloom.
Not yet, but any day now, as the warm up continues, I'm sure this witch hazel, which is rapidly becoming the world's most watched witch hazel, will bloom.
I had hoped to have a few snowdrops blooming mid-month, as I did in February 2009 or a crocus blooming like in February 2008, but with the garden redesign last spring, I think those particular areas might have gotten dug up and the bulbs lost.
Note to self -- plant snowdrops next fall.
While looking for tiny bulbs blooming, I stumbled upon a Viola, with two little blooms on it.
This little viola got moved twice last spring, suffered through the drought and heat of last summer, didn't get weeded out last fall, made it through winter and now has two blooms on it.
Note to self -- plant more violas and let them grow in the garden as long as they want.
And that's what's blooming outside in my garden on this fine February day.
Inside, just like every year at this time, I'm enjoying hyacinths "on vase".
It wouldn't be February without them.
What’s blooming in your garden on this wintry February day?
We would love to have you join in for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day and tell us. It’s easy to participate and all are invited! Just post on your blog about what is blooming in your garden on the 15th of the month and leave a comment to tell us what you have waiting for us to see so we can pay you a virtual visit. Then put your name and the url to your post on the Mr. Linky widget below to make it easy to find you.
“We can have flowers nearly every month of the year.” ~ Elizabeth Lawrence
Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 5b garden in central Indiana, we are enjoying several days with temperatures above freezing after days and days of ice and snow and temperatures well below freezing.
These warmer days gave me hope that I would find blooms outside for this bloom day, unlike my first bloom day in February 2007 and again in February 2010 when the garden was snow covered.
So I went outside and began to look in all the usual places. You can picture me leaning over with my hands on my knees to steady myself, peering through the tops of my glasses and through the bottoms of my glasses, and sometimes over my glasses, looking over every inch of the garden before finally spying some little sprouts of crocuses, as seen above.
I also spied these little sprouts from a mixture of bulbs newly planted last fall.
I'll have to check my notes to see what these bulbs might be.
I must have gone outside at least a dozen times on Sunday and again late Monday to see if the witch hazel, Hamamelis vernalis, had started to bloom.
Not yet, but any day now, as the warm up continues, I'm sure this witch hazel, which is rapidly becoming the world's most watched witch hazel, will bloom.
I had hoped to have a few snowdrops blooming mid-month, as I did in February 2009 or a crocus blooming like in February 2008, but with the garden redesign last spring, I think those particular areas might have gotten dug up and the bulbs lost.
Note to self -- plant snowdrops next fall.
While looking for tiny bulbs blooming, I stumbled upon a Viola, with two little blooms on it.
This little viola got moved twice last spring, suffered through the drought and heat of last summer, didn't get weeded out last fall, made it through winter and now has two blooms on it.
Note to self -- plant more violas and let them grow in the garden as long as they want.
And that's what's blooming outside in my garden on this fine February day.
Inside, just like every year at this time, I'm enjoying hyacinths "on vase".
It wouldn't be February without them.
What’s blooming in your garden on this wintry February day?
We would love to have you join in for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day and tell us. It’s easy to participate and all are invited! Just post on your blog about what is blooming in your garden on the 15th of the month and leave a comment to tell us what you have waiting for us to see so we can pay you a virtual visit. Then put your name and the url to your post on the Mr. Linky widget below to make it easy to find you.
“We can have flowers nearly every month of the year.” ~ Elizabeth Lawrence
Comments
Stay warm, and thanks for hosting!
HM
Rosie
Spring is on the way, yeah!!
Love the hyacinths - I can almost smell them from here. Happy Bloom Day!
How wonderful that you can see your ground! We're under about two feet of snow here in Connecticut--although they promise some melting by the end of the week. Even my witch hazel hasn't performed yet (although I had to slog through knee deep snow to check!) Still an old-fashioned winter gives us something to talk about--and perhaps we won't complain so bitterly about heat or drought next summer! Thanks for the meme!
Karla
Julie
My GBBD post is here: http://wellylady.blogspot.com/2011/02/february-flowers.html
Somebody needs to tell Beth of South Alabama that her links go to her facebook profile from which it is impossible to find her OR her Bloom Day post.
Thanks for hosting GBBD!
Re: snowdrops... I've had better luck getting them to estabish when I've moved them when in bloom rather than when they were dormant! All you need is a friend with lots of snowdrops (the best kind of friend to have!).
I'm so excited to see that variety of what's happening in everyone else's garden's this particular February since it's so weird out there! :-)
Please stop by and say Hi!
Happy Bloom Day! I am so jazzed, I could POP!
>^,,^<
The gardens are most definitely waking up here in the UK, but we have the possibility of snow at the end of the week. Winter and spring are definitely locked in battle!
http://wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/garden-bloggers-bloom-day-february-2011/
I love those Hyacinths too, You've reminded me I've got jars just like that in my shed too. I should use them also :-)
Wishing you a great week, Congrats and thanks for continuing to host GBBD :-D
Jan
Always Growing
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
I enjoyed your signs of spring and lovely indoor blooms. My post is a day late, and pathetic this time, but I did come up with a few indoor blooms.
I was a bit naughty and copied your idea, but for a in German written bloom day! I hope this is o.k.!?
I´m not sure either if there anybody will share, because my blog is very young and it seems I have more contact with English speaking bloggers...
Please let me know, if you dislike and I´ll close it!
Have a nice evening!
Gesine
More details on my blog at Shade Solutins
www.munchkinnursery.com
Gene
Amy
My hubby went into hospital with pneumonia on the 15th and that, as you can well imagine, put the kybosh on my Bloom Day post. He's on the mend and hopefully will be home on Monday.
Lucky you to have Hyacinths!
Spring is just around the corner :)