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I couldn’t resist posting just one more photo of my favorite iris. Of course these flowers are long gone … they bloomed in the second week of April in my Toronto garden and were gone only a few days later … but this picture and other photos I took of them will make them last forever.
What’s your favorite spring flower?
These are my favorite irises. They are called Danfordia irises and they are dwarf irises. I love their vibrant color, but hate that they only seem to bloom here for just a few days. Perhaps it’s because even though they bloom in early spring we’re usually warming up fast here in Toronto just as they begin to bloom … if it were colder I’m sure they’d last longer. Oh well … then I’d be complaining that Spring was too cold … can’t have it both ways, now can I?
Ah, the sweet perfume of hyacinth is once more enhancing my backyard. A few of my hyacinth plants started to bloom on Friday and the flowers are just beginning to open.
I love the rich shades of color of these purple hyacinths. They are blue to deep blue in some light and purple at other times. It’s strange, yet beautiful.
Do you enjoy Hyacinths? Do you buy forced plants to have inside in the winter or do you grow them in your garden?
Why these lovely flowers are called “Glories of the Snow” (Chionodoxa) I don’t know. Mine never come up while there’s still snow on the ground. Nope … they tend to come up somewhere between the beginning of April and the end of the April depending how warm a spring we’re having.
This year they came up in early April and due to a mostly dry month I believe they’re already starting to die down a bit. We did have some rain yesterday (wind storm prior to it was like a mini-tornado!) and we’re expecting more today, so maybe the lovely little flowers will last for a while longer.
In this photo I love how the green plant leaves are swirling around the flowers. I took this photo from a different angle than I normally do when I photograph these short stemmed flowers. I also like how the bent over tulip bud adds a punch of color to the background.
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