With us having a very mild winter, no snow and next to not much rain, one for the record books, it didn't even feel like winter this year. Now with temps in the 50 and 60 degrees already the last few weeks, and dare say, a few days closing in on the 70-degree mark, the garden is in spring thaw. The faithful winter lawn crocus are up in force already. And they seem to have multiplied.
How lovely, sweetpea! I have a particular fondness for those little pansies as they spring up around here in the most unexpected places! xoxo
ReplyDeleteclusters of crocus, purple and gold! This an aconite were the first signs of spring !
ReplyDeleteWe have a few crocus and snowdrops here - and the first of the daffs. Spring's around the corner, but best not to tempt fate... Jx
ReplyDeleteLove the johnny-jump-ups too!
ReplyDeleteYour crocuses are delightful. I've got bluebirds, too, and cardinals.
ReplyDeleteLovely photographs! Crocus, ah Crocus -- one of my favorites of all the Spring flowers! :-)
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorites too of the spring. They're here one day, and gone too quickly. And welcome Carl! Thanks for stopping by, and y'all come back now.
DeleteA nice early spring
ReplyDeleteStill to much like winter, here in North Idaho.
ReplyDeleteCoffee is on and stay safe
Beautiful! This time of year starts to make me so giddy,! I feel like I need to get naked and run through a field in the moonlight or something.... One day I will!
ReplyDeleteSpring is springing up there in Yankee Land.. It was 74 degrees here today, for the Mardi Gras parade on Texas Avenue in the Lil City by the Red.
ReplyDeleteI sure hope you been well Tommy!!!! I must pop in soon.
DeleteI'm so envious of your nice weather. It's dreadful here in still. Damp, rainy, cloudy and cold.
ReplyDeleteI want the sunshine back and I want it now as I stamp my feet and wring my hands!! I love crocus...a sure sign of Spring.
The Striped crocus are so pretty one of my favorites. I don't know how they multiply either, but I seems to have more and more lawn crocus every year too. Once I move, I plan to dig up a few bulbs and plants from the gardens to take with me. I have no idea how they'll do at the shore.
ReplyDeleteSpring is indeed beautiful indeed by proof as in your pictures.
ReplyDeleteThose flowers are really gorgeous. How can crocus not make one happy? My sister tries to get bluebirds to no avail in her yard.
ReplyDeleteI love crocus... they are so perfect! I also love Snowdrops.
ReplyDeleteNo real sign of Spring around these parts yet - hope yours isn't a flash in the pan. I see you still have another pansy coming back. They are such strong little flowers.
ReplyDeleteWhen I plant my pansies I never even pulled them out. And every year they come back.
DeleteBeautiful photos.
ReplyDeleteNot fair! You'll be boasting about wearing T-shirts next week. We have another month or so of jumpers in the UK. Admittedly I was admiring the Primroses this morning, though.
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No there won't be any t-shirt wearing it Miss Scarlett. We're supposed to get up to almost 65 by Thursday, and then Saturday it's plummeting down into the low 30s again. At least for a couple of days. But I won't be here to care!
DeleteOh, we seem to have swapped climate this year. It has been cold, cold, cold. Below average for us. And wind to the point I sometimes think I've been transported to Chicago!
ReplyDeleteI really like crocus and pansies.
ReplyDeleteVery jell. I'm returning home from Palm Springs today... to snow. In fact, we are to get 20 inches of fresh stuff this week. As for Palm Springs, I can't tell you the number of inches I got there. :) Well, I could, but... I rarely kiss and tell. Kizzes.
ReplyDeleteThe light purple one is Crocus Tommasainianus, a variety I don't have in my garden. I do have a record number of flowers out in the garden given the time of year.
ReplyDeleteWell these temperatures keep up all of our bulbs are going to be up and bloomed and over by time Easter comes.
DeleteEnjoy the weather we're not having over here in SoCal. Today is the one day of the week I'll get sunshine. The mountains are expected to get snow in a few days.
ReplyDeleteI swear it's like the east coast and the West Coast are switching sides of the weather.
DeleteTundra Bunny here...
ReplyDeleteCrocuses, pussy willows and yellow daffodils are my favourite spring blossoms too. We still have snow on the ground here and -20 C temps, so spring is still 6-8 weeks away, but hope springs eternal, LOL!
Oh my God I couldn't even imagine having that much snow, and those temperatures this close to Spring already. I love winter but not that much. When you get spring and summer exactly how long does it last?
DeleteMost people outside the US don't exactly think of Pennsylvania as being a holiday destination, but where you live is on the same latitude as Greece and the Greek Islands, southern Spain, Portugal and Italy, the Azores and Turkey. No wonder you have early Springs. Jx
DeleteTundra Bunny here again...
DeleteAccording to climatological records, the only frost-free month on the Canadian prairies is July. Climate change has blurred the once sharp lines of our 4 seasons, but spring is usually underway by mid-April when the snow cover finally melts, although I have driven in white-out blizzards as late as May! Spring lasts until mid-May and our summers are late May to mid-September. Then winter snows usually arrives by Halloween, but our coldest winter temps and snowfalls are from November to the end of January. The prairies are a land of extremes, from -50 to +40 Celsius, blizzards to tornadoes, plough winds to terrifying electrical storms. We have an old saying here: if you don't like the weather, just wait five minutes... And as an added bonus, it's so flat here, we can watch our dogs run away from home for three days, LOL!
love your garden
ReplyDeleteMy grass is starting to grow
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