Snow Crocus Blooms - March 2023
We have our first bloom of the year: an inherited (and...I'm pretty SURE naturalized) Snow Crocus. The purple petals stand out against the brown mulch and other decaying matter in the far back of our yard. You'll notice some green tips in the photo below. What are those? Pretty sure they're Wild Onions. But, I'm not letting those rain on my parade here. Snow Crocus (Crocus sieberi) is here for just a brief bit - a Spring Ephemeral. I haven't posted about this Snow Crocus on the blog, but I know it has been here since we moved in to Downers Grove. Not sure how it got here, but glad it is here. This U of I extension explainer is a pretty good read on Snow Crocuses . From Ryan Pankau who writes the Garden Scoop Blog says that Snow Crocus is the first sign of Spring in his yard. And, he talks about how they arrived: So, how did this beauty of spring wind up randomly dispersed across our yard? They have come to occupy my yard (and many others in North Ameri