With the lack of snow most of the winter, I expected to see wildflowers blooming very early with mild winter, but instead they were later than normal. Even the other flowers were late as I found some snow glories ten days ago but a lot of years they are blooming in March.
Late Snow Glories
The Snow Glories received a coating of that white stuff that is in their name and I rather not see snow anymore this spring.
Snow Glories in Snow
A eighty degree day sure makes a big difference in getting flower blossoms to open up as yesterday I only found one Snow Glory which was just starting to open up and a day later, there were multiple patches with full blooms.
Snow Glories Without Snow
The snow glories are finally making their appearance, a month later than normal. Hopefully with the April rain showers, more May flowers will make an appearance too.
Slow Snow Glories
Ten years ago, these flowers were blooming for the first day of spring. There is no hint of leaves poking up through the ground where the snow recently melted so no Snow Glories to signal the start of spring this year.
No Spring Flowers
The snow glories popping up on my lawn might not be covered in snow like some years, but they sure got wet this evening and some of them might even have been burnt from the frequent lightning strikes.
Snow Glories Not in Snow
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
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
The day started off with a thunderstorm and then so foggy I couldn’t see my pond. But late afternoon the sun came out and the bluebirds were singing as they checked out birdhouses. The pheasants and woodpeckers added some mating calls as sandhill cranes flew overhead. The evening frog choir serenaded the pink supermoon as it rose in the sky. This April’s full moon, also known as the pink moon because of moss pink, native North American wildflowers that bloom in early springtime, happens to be the closest moon of the year. While pink flowers may be blooming elsewhere, the blossoms I spotted today in my yard were blues and not pink.
Finally Flowers
A late April Sunday walk through the woods would be nice to search for wildflowers, but today it was a bit chilly and the ground still soggy plus the late spring has very few wildflowers open yet. I did find a “wild” flower on my lawn though. Snow Glory, also called Glory-of-the-Snow, is a small bulb-producing plant native to western Turkey and garden centers sells this ornamental bulb. I had some planted in my retaining wall beds, but now they have escaped, relocating on different areas of my lawn, even up a steep hill.
Wild Flower
