The white crocuses and this white squill started blooming yesterday. The binomial is Scilla mischtschenkoana which has to be in the running for the word with the most consecutive consonants. Anyway, it’s a pretty little thing. Some daffodils started blooming today, but I can only post one picture here, so you’ll have to wait. I have a feeling you’ll be getting sick of my flower pictures before too long.
Tagged With: Ephemerals
The First Scilla
Categories: Flowers and Plants
Tags: Blue, Bulbs, Ephemerals, Scilla, Spring, Spring Ephemerals, White
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Chionodoxa Species (Glory Of The Snow)
We went to the Agricultural History Farm Park briefly today. There are bulbs coming up and some Lenten rose in bloom. The photo I’m posting is of a spring ephemeral commonly called Glory of the Snow. The genus name, Chionodoxa, comes from the Greek words chion meaning snow and doxa meaning glory. It’s definitely one of my favorites and I have a fair number of these around the garden at home, including C. forbesii and C. luciliae (which I think this probably is, but I’m not sure).
Categories: Flowers and Plants
Tags: Bulbs, Chionodoxa, Chionodoxa forbesii, Ephemerals, Glory of the Snow, Spring, Spring Ephemerals
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