Crocuses and snowdrops are blooming in my northern garden. In February! In any other year, it would be preposterous. Yes, it's been an unusually mild winter, but none of my other crocuses, including all of those on the Crocus Bank, have poked up even one pointy leaf. As you probably surmised from the title, these [...]
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March 10, 2010 – Posted in: Garden chores, Plant info, Snowdrops, What's up/bloomingIn January, the snowdrops in the Secret Garden looked like this: This Sunday just passed--March 7th--those same snowdrops looked like this: Such are the vagaries of an upstate New York winter. Since then, the temperatures have been mild and the sunshine brilliant, and the snow is receding. This, my fellow cold climate gardeners, is the [...]
January Thaw Discoveries: Plants
February 7, 2010 – Posted in: What's up/bloomingThe January thaw of last week provided me with an opportunity to "check under the hood"--or, in this case, under the snow cover. It's always thought provoking, prompting me to think about how different plants respond to this cold season. This snapdragon looked perkier the last time I saw it. I don't think it will [...]
Mud Season Color: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day March 2009
March 15, 2009 – Posted in: Mud Season, What's up/bloomingAs soon as the snow melts, before anything even blooms, there is color.If you are aware that some plants can grow underneath the snow, this is not a complete surprise, though I always marvel when it is an attractive garden plant that pulls this trick, and not just the tap-rooted and creeping weeds.The first flowers [...]
Small Gifts: Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day April 2008
April 15, 2008 – Posted in: MiscellaneousThe Crocus Bank is looking glorious (click any photo to enlarge it): But I was pleasantly surprised to see this wee thing:
Snowdrop Race
January 5, 2006 – Posted in: Catalog review, Plant info, Snowdrops, What's up/bloomingOld Roses has won the snowdrop race, but IBOY made a fine showing. Me? I won't even start looking for snowdrops till February, but I'll be lucky to find any before March. And what about the Southerners? How far south can one go and still grow snowdrops? These snowdrops were blooming in the Secret Garden [...]
Snowdrops
March 22, 2003 – Posted in: Plant info, Snowdrops, What's up/bloomingThe snowdrops in the Secret Garden are all blooming now, the same ones I tried to will out of the ground earlier. These are my most rapidly increasing snowdrops. I got them from a friend who found them growing in a field near her house. Presumably there was once a house and garden where she [...]
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