It may be the start of a new month, but it is still too early to find any flowers blooming outside. And tomorrow the groundhog will tell us how soon we might see flowers peeking up through the snow.
Blossoms in the Snow
Picture of the Day for April 14, 2020
Snow Glories, or Glory-of-the-Snow, sure have lived up to their name as these blossoms have been covered in deep snow on Sunday and snowed on the next two days after they poked back out briefly between the snow showers.
Glory-of-the-Snow
Picture of the Day for April 18, 2015
The Glory-of-the-Snow are not a wildflower, but they are ‘wild’ since they escaped about 150 feet from where I originally had them planted and now a cluster of blue is in the woods. It was a pleasant surprise to see when only a few varieties of flowers are open yet but I hope it doesn’t snow on the Glory-of-the-snow.
The ‘Wild’ Glory-of-the-Snow
Picture of the Day for April 20, 2014
The first signs of new life has appeared for Easter morning since a lone flower has poked through the dormant winter covering. The Glory-of-the-snow is a suitable name for this flower since there is still snow on the ground yet but the ‘glory’ of seeing some color besides white is a joyous occasion.
Glory-of-the-Snow
Picture of the Day for March 20, 2014
Well today is the first day of spring and two years ago, this pretty little flower was blooming before the official start of spring. If it tried blooming this year, the Glory of the Snow would have to bloom under a snow bank even if it is spring.
Glory of the Snow
But when I look from my porch, I couldn’t see any spring flowers this year so I decided to rectify that problem and ‘plant’ some flowers which I could view from my porch!
Picture of the Day for November 16, 2012
Another flower that I would ‘hunt for in the spring’, is the Glory-of-the-snow (Chinodoxa), originating in the alpine regions of Turkey, Crete and Cyprus, where each year it transforms the landscape from snowy white to blue. It’s therefore fitting that its botanical name comes from the Greek chion, meaning “snow,” and doxa, meaning “glory.”
I suppose one would be in glory seeing the snow melt and the flowers blooming after a long winter.
Glory-of-the-snow
