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An emerging hyacinth

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Hyacinth buds

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On Friday, after the scent of blooming hyacinths drew me out of the house I went outside with my camera. There were so many different spring flowers blooming!

I don’t know how many photos I ended up taking but it had to have been at least 50 pictures. I’m so thankful that I have a digital camera as it gives me the ability to take as many photos as I like and discard any that don’t turn out well.

I found this small hyacinth just getting ready to go into bloom. I love how the red tinged mauve buds contrast with the bright green leaves.

This hyacinth does look a little sparse. I’ll have to check on it later today and see if more buds came out. It might be that it’s a new bulb, or one that’s beginning to lose it’s strength. Hyacinth bulbs don’t always have the longest lifespan.

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The Christmas Rose – helleborus orientals

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Yes I know it’s Tuesday. I did not forget about Green Thumb Sunday. I just wasn’t able to make my post on Sunday because I was so busy. I’d rather have been posting, or gardening or pretty much anything else other than what I was doing! I was doing taxes!

It turned out to be a beautiful day on Saturday. I actually got outside, enjoyed some time with my husband sitting at our patio table that my husband had just hauled out and put back together that morning, and walked around taking photos of some of the flowers that were blooming.

Like this one. This is helleborus orientals. It’s also known as the Christmas rose. It’s called the Christmas rose because in some areas it blooms around Christmas time – even in the snow. Our area is too cool in the winter for it to live up to it’s name, however ours often is an early bloomer, tending to bloom around the same time as the crocus’.

I discovered that our Helleborus had one fully open flower and several buds that will soon bloom. I’ll try to get another photo when there are several buds blooming.

Isn’t this a lovely plant? The flowers are gorgeous but shy. They hang their pretty heads so it’s hard to see them in the garden. They draw you close so you can see their true beauty.

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Crocus timelapse

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In the spring, crocus’ are one of the first flowers that I have the pleasure of seeing emerge. Sometimes they come up as early as Mid-March, often between melting patches of snow.

I have crocus’ planted in my lawn. Not in the high traffic areas, but in various places on my front and back lawn for a natural kind of look. It’s very nice when I can look outside and see the vibrant yellow and purple crocus flowers peeking out amid the grass as it too begins to turn the pretty green of spring.

Here’s a video of a crocus’ blooming. It’s a time lapse video of about 30 seconds. Enjoy!

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