Crocuses are finally starting to bloom! These were a surprise, they're in the bottom corner of the yard where we planted bulbs our very first spring in this house, 13 years ago. We didn't realize how many large invasive plants were in that area that quickly grew over the bulbs. Now that the area is cleared out, apparently some of the crocuses managed to survive.
I planted more crocuses around the yard over the last couple of years and those are getting close to blooming. The squirrels really love to dig them up, but I've been sprinkling stinky cat litter around all of my bulbs and that seems to help.
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| Crocuses and aquilegia |
The pieris japonica and hellebores continue to bloom, they are definitely the winners for long lasting flowers this winter. I'm slowly, finally, starting to find the early spring plants blooming.
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| Helleborus 'Cinnamon Snow' |
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| Unknown variety of cedar |
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| A pretty weed - lamium purpureum, purple dead nettle |
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| Finally found one flower on the hazelnuts! |
What's next? It's so hard to tell, the flowering currants are close, but I'm betting on the forsythia.
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| Forsythia |
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| Hyacinth |
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| Flowering currant |
