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My crocus’ are almost finished blooming, but I did manage to capture them when they were at their finest. I love this purple and yellow combo.
Most of my crocus flowers are in little clumps in the grass beside the garden beds. I don’t know why I didn’t mix more of them, as most are clumps of just yellow or purple, which of course look lovely, but the combination is fantastic.
There’s still snow on the ground here in Toronto, but it’s melting. I’m hoping it will be all but gone by sometime next week.
At this point there’s obviously no hyacinths blooming, but I can look forward to blooms like this one soon!
Do you have any spring flowers growing in yard or garden yet?
This is Morden Sunrise. It’s a hardy little Canadian rose. Isn’t it lovely?
I’m still longing for Spring and I can’t wait for all of my spring flowers to bloom and then for my roses to begin their blooming season.
Do you grow flowers? What is your favorite?
This flower is best know by it’s common name of “Four o’ Clocks”, but it also goes by the names of Marvel of Peru, and it’s Latin name of Mirabilis jalapa.
As it’s common name implies this flower begins to bloom in the late afternoon around 4 pm. Mine have never opened that early though. Mine tend to open somewhere between 6 pm and 8 pm on long summer days.
I’ve found that the white four o’ clocks produce the strongest scent so I tend to only have white four o’ clocks in my garden. The scent is a strong jasmine and since the flowers tend to bloom all night long the garden is scented with their lovely jasmine scent at night.
This is an annual flower that produces large round hard black seeds from September until it stops blooming. I simply save the seeds in a cool dry place in the winter and plant them directly in the garden in late spring or early summer in order to produce new plants each year.
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