GBBD is Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, a garden meme instigated by my pal and fellow garden blogger, Carol, in Indiana. She has a rollicking good time w/Bloom Day, and often has a couple hundred participants.
I have some piddly but charming plants popping up, so all is not lost this month. March seems to be a very long month, almost as long as February in Idaho. I can see the title “snowbird” in my future. Not snow snake or snipe, just “snowbird”: one who seeks warmer climes and pina coladas during the winter months.
Here’s what’s goin’ on at Ranch du Bois:
My lovely unnamed hellebore.
Exquisite long blooming crocus.
Iris reticulata (note to self, you need a couple hundred more of these darlings).
The parrotia tree, with a gazillion unopened hot pink mophead blossoms. Ready to pop.
You most definitely need a couple hundred more I. reticulata. We all do!
Love the angle you took those last two photos at. I need more iris reticulata myself.~~Dee
You’ve got nothing to complain about with Hellebores, Crocuses & Iris reticulata blooming. Just lovely.
Love you blooms MA! The parrotia tree is new to me. Interesting tree! Happy Bloomday!
I wandered here from GBBD at May Dreams Gardens – your post was a few above mine. Your flowers are wonderful, and I am so envious of that Hellebore! Mine are quite bedraggled after a harsh winter and 47 inches of snow in Feb. All I have blooming is Iris reticulata ‘Clairette,’ but that is enough. Your Iris is purple and Clairette is bluer. I need to find some of those purple ones you have. I really enjoyed your flowers. Thanks for sharing them!
Despite the snow and cold you have some lovely blooms…spring is coming to the wild wild west!
Oh yes, that looks like the regular h. hybridus. Gorgeous. Your light is so different.