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Crocuses in the lawn |
Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, Spring has cracked open the garden gate and taken a few tentative steps into the garden.
First to arrive were the snowdrops, of course. Then the race was on between the crocuses and the reticulated irises.
This year the crocuses won, in particular Crocus tommasinianus, affectionately called Tommies.
Many of the crocuses are in the back lawn now. They actually showed up earlier in the week when it was suddenly warm.
I think if I had stood there long enough, I could have caught one popping up and blooming.
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Crocus on Monday, March 10 |
Crocus on Thursday, March 13 |
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Crocus on March 14 |
The first of the Iris reticulata showed up this week, too, just in time for bloom day.
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Iris reticulata |
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Snowdrops |
What's blooming in your spring garden?
It’s easy to join in for Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day. Just post on your own blog about what's blooming in your garden right now, outdoors or indoors. You can include pictures, lists, common names, botanical names, whatever you’d like to do to showcase your blooms.
Then leave a comment and put your name and a link back to your bloom day post in the Mr. Linky widget below, so we know where to find your blog and can visit you virtually and read about your bloom day blooms.
“We can have flowers nearly every month of the year.” ~ Elizabeth Lawrence
Comments
Happy GBBD!
Unlike Helene (who has the heat island effect of London affecting her garden), we have snowdrops, crocus, daffodils and tulips. Oh, and the warning blooms of the blackthorn to remind us that winter may not be over quite yet.
After all the rain of the past few months. it's good to see that March is treating us in a more gentle and benign fashion.
Happy Blooms Day everyone!
Happy Bloom Day and thank you for hosting, Carol.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for hosting this - it will be good to keep a record every month of the best flowers in the garden. We are just a few weeks ahead of you in Aberdeen, Scotland. My Iris reticulata is just coming to an end, as our my snowdrops. Enjoy your spring flowers.
Yael from Home Garden Diggers
Thank you for hosting!
groetjes, Hetty.
(dutch-garden-stories.blogspot.nl)
I don't think I've ever appreciated spring more than this year — the winter seemed endless. And now all sorts of interesting flowers are popping out. I'm ready to start making out my bulb list for next year after seeing how bulbs can survive even the harshest winter...
Happy bloom day
Yay... finally enjoying Cyclamen coeum and Iris reticulata in my own garden after seeing it on all the many GBBD posts over the years - THANK-YOU for hosting :-D
Wren x
Wren x