Blooming in March

March 15th, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 6 Comments

I took this photo yesterday, a day ahead of Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. I knew that rain was predicted for Wednesday afternoon and throughout today, but late yesterday morning it was merely overcast and quite mild, and I thought, “Go looking for flowers now, or forget about it.”

So I went galomphing about in the nearly slushy snow, and took photos of snowdrops in various stages of bud. These were the closest to blooming.

Then, as predicted, it started to rain on all that snow. Fog began to rise from the snow pack and became quite dense. It was almost surreal, the way it rose from the snow and started moving with the air currents:

The fog continued to rise and became especially thick over the brook, until the whole valley filled up with fog:

That was yesterday. It was supposed to rain all day today. I got up this morning, saw the snow was basically gone from the lawn, and thought, “Shoot! I should have taken a before picture. No one is going to believe how fast the snow melted.” Then, as I watched, snow began to mix with the rain, and in another hour, it was all snow, and soon after, the lawn was covered with snow again. Later on, it turned back to rain.

Tomorrow, another storm is coming. They are expecting 6 to 10 inches of snow to accumulate by the time the storm is done on Saturday. Clearly spring is not around this corner.

Stumble it!

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1 Blooming in March | My Gardening Home Blog // Mar 16, 2007 at 3:30 am

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2 Carol // Mar 16, 2007 at 5:34 am

I don’t know what I would do right now if it started to snow again. I’ve heard rumors that we might have snow showers this weekend, but it would be unusual for us to have any accumulation at this point. But weather always seems to be unusual these days, so who knows! Thanks for posting on bloom daywith your snow drops and fog. Next month, right?!
3 Gilly Hill // Mar 16, 2007 at 8:10 am

Over in the UK in Nottinghamshire (about the middle of England) we have some quite good weather although we, too, are forecast some snow for Monday, though I guess only a sprinkling. At the moment we have the shrub Coronilla glauca citrina in full bloom and the scent is absolutely wonderful…so sweet and on a still day carries over a large area. It seems to need a sunny south facing site, but apart from that is easy as winking to grow. It is about 4 feet high and wide. Would make a good conservatory plant in cold areas. Try it! Its lovely.
4 Annie in Austin // Mar 16, 2007 at 8:27 am

At least you got some great photos, Kathy - the first fog picture had me looking in the corners for a London villain.

I still remember shoveling over a foot of snow in mid-April one year, during spring break for the schools in our IL town. It happens, but it doesn’t seem right, does it?

We’ll be waiting to see those snowdrops again!

Annie at the Transplantable Rose
5 bill // Mar 16, 2007 at 9:02 am

We had heavy fog here in north Texas yesterday too. Maybe it’s not such a different world after all.
6 tea // Mar 19, 2007 at 5:14 am

Sure hope our snow dissapears soon! No sign of anything springing up yet.

tea
xo