Up until today these winter aconites have been closed up tight, but this morning the sun was shining, the air warm and some flies were awake. I was buzzed by one as I walked over to the shade garden to take this picture. Pollinators are just what the flowers have been waiting for. When you are a flower there is no point in flashing your beauty if there is no one there to appreciate it.
Granted we are off to a slow start. So far only a few of the snow drops have deigned to open up. Some of them are still closed tight, playing it cool and waiting for more activity. There are a couple of nice little rose campion plants in this spot. They will have to be carefully moved . A small rosette the first year grows to a large one with flowers the next. There is no room for them here at the base of my tree peony.
I could only find one open Dutch iris flower this morning, but by afternoon several more were open. I observed a few bees on the flowers. Every spring I delight in these beautiful hardy little iris.
Ed's October sky asters are coming alive. Last years' stems will have to be lopped off to make room for the new growth.
This baby foxglove looks pretty good. It is sheltered by the stone square and coming up beneath the summer sweet. Some of foxgloves in other places don't look quite this good.
We were just a little late getting a protective cage over these crocus plants. They were nipped in the bud, but it looks like they are going to try to open anyway. You can count on the plants to make their best effort no matter what. For them and for us spring is a new beginning.
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