Has the spring been moving along too quickly in your area? Around here the warm weather has accelerated everything so that plants have been making their appearance and blooming faster than any year I can recall. The spring ephemerals are the worst of the bunch — they’re up and gone before I’ve barely had a chance to process them.
Don’t get me wrong, I am in love with the season and have been in a semi-blissed-out state through it all. It just means that everything has been rush, rush, and mania. There is the rush to catch the flowers before they are gone, the rush to take photos, the rush to get the garden prepped, and then planted in due course. Somewhere in there I am supposed to write about it. I can’t keep up! You should see the roof garden right now. It’s a disaster of pots and plants scattered willy-nilly.
All of that to explain why I can no longer recall which variety of crocus this is. I think it might just be more ‘Ruby Giant’ but so much time has passed and so many plants have come and gone since I took this photo.
My brain is simply overloaded. Although in a good way.
I hear you. With all the work there is to do in both the vegetable and flower beds this time of year, I have to force myself to stop and look at the flowers.
We (on the west coast) have had a batch of cold weather & hard frosts that have set us back a few weeks, but I’m glad to hear that you have warm weather!
Those look like my autumn crocuses (croci?). They came with the house so I don’t know anymore than that.
but then if you took the photo this spring…yeah, we got frost again this morning (west coast) so I’m still weeks out from putting out things like tomatoes.
Now, that’s just “purty.”