Spring in Seattle

[kate_schaefer]

Hah! It's spring in Seattle. Crocuses are blooming in my backyard. So is the flowering quince, but that means nothing; the quince flowers all year long.

Perhaps some day soon there will be enough sunshine for the crocuses to be open as well as blooming...

Comments

[weemallard.livejournal.com]

My grandmother's daffodils are poking their wee green shoots up.

Is this normal?

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

Yes, daffodils should have wee green shoots by now. February bloomers like Tete-a-tete and February Gold should have substantial wee green shoots by now; late bloomers (and I don't know the names of true late bloomers) should be poking their heads up very very cautiously. It's a bit early for the crocuses to be in blossom, even snow crocuses like these, by about a week or maybe ten days. I think this is a few days earlier than they bloomed last year, and last year they were earlier than I expected them, but I haven't kept records. Thomas Jefferson said everyone should keep records of such things, so they'd know from year to year if something was unusual, but I have taken note of his advice without taking heed of it.

[marykaykare.livejournal.com]

Alas, the early spring blooming bulbs in the fashionable basket which I ordered from a catalog have put out lots and lots of thin green leaves, but no buds of any sort in sight.

MKK

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

I don't think my crocuses have bloomed yet either, although I haven't checked the ones in the back yard, which get more sun. The crocuses and daffodils are certainly showing their heads out front.

[lintninja.livejournal.com]

I have one hyacynth in the back yard that has alrady bloomed. But all the other flower bulbs are just poking up the little green shoots. When there is some sun I feel like I can see them growing by the minute.

[shikzoid.livejournal.com]

My camellia is blooming!

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

We offed our camellia 11 years ago, when we planted the wisteria. At least, we intended to off the camellia. It had been planted way too close to the house, and its roots were actually coiled around the water pipe leading to the house, not what one wants in a sturdy shrub.

It's hard to kill a camellia unless one removes every cell of the plant, and even then maybe one ought to burn over the ground and sow it with salt. Given that we wanted to grow other plants there, that wasn't an option. The camellia is back, skinny and short, but definitely there and intending to bloom soon.

I'll let it open its one blossom, and then out it comes again, as much of it as I can remove.

snow crocuses (crocii?)

[anitar.livejournal.com]

I need to take some pictures of the snow crocuses in my front yard and send them to my sister in Delaware, since she did most of the planting last fall. I'd really like to see the blooms open if we get some sunshine!

I've got a few snowdrops coming along, also.