Friday, February 15, 2013

February 2013 Blooms

What's blooming in February?  Some usual suspects and a fun (for me) surprise.

It's crocus time.  Mostly yellows, a few purple, and one just-starting (unpictured) white.




It's the first week of Lent - a good time to show off the Lenten roses (Hellebores).  I have several plants.  The greenish-white-flowered one blooms at the end of last year's stems, showing off the flowers:

The purple hellebores send up new flower stalks from the center, so the flowers get hidden behind last year's leaves.  Especially this year - the mostly warm winter means those old leaves are still pretty vigorous.  I had to dig to find the flowers.



What is exciting and new this year:  some of my self-seeded hellebore plants are finally blooming.  These youngsters are 3-4 years old and putting out their first flowers.  One of the white variety and one of the purple:


(Also blooming this month:  some rather un-showy snowdrops, rue (still), pansies (barely), and winter weeds.)

Happy February Bloom Day!

(I finally posted January's blooms, too. You can see them here.)

3 comments:

  1. Your hellebores are great and your crocus look really healthy. Yea for those first blooms.

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  2. I had one pitiful looking crocus that came up from ones planted sometime in the past. I was too embarrassed to even post its picture. Apparently even the squirrels didn't want it!

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  3. You have a lot going on! My hellebores are seedlings given to me by a friend and they haven't bloomed yet. My crocus also aren't doing much yet, either. But to defend them a bit, a bunch were dug up during some major garden redesigning last fall and are probably still recovering. My rue is still hanging on, too. Tough plant! :o)

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