March 2021 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Pauli]

Pulsatilla grandis is starting to flower in the garden

[Tristan_He]

Those are beautiful Herbert! I love the incredibly hairy buds.

[Gail]

And particularly lovely with that bumblebee diving head first in.

[Claire Cockcroft]

The sun and warmer temperatures brought out the flowers.
Cyclamen coum.





Crocus tommasinianus takes over the whole bed.


...Claire

[Claire Cockcroft]

A few snowdrops

'Cedric's Prolific'


'Wasp'


'S. Arnott'


'Hippolyta'

[Leena]

Crocus tommasinianus takes over the whole bed.

I just love this view! Crocuses look like they belong there.

[Herman Mylemans]

Claire, it is spring in your garden! Very lovely.

[Gerdk]

Flowering since about a week -

Forsythia ovata - I guess the earliest of the genus

Gerd

[Andre Schuiteman]

I bought this some years ago as Saxifraga burseriana 'Seissera' but I believe it is rather 'Crenata'. It stays outside all year round, unprotected, the pot sunken in sand in a planter. In summer I keep it out of direct sunlight. I have another, unnamed, clone of S. burseriana that flowers a month later under the same conditions.

[Robert]

A few plants from our Sacramento, California garden.



Various forms of Erythronium multiscapideum are scattered throughout our garden.



All the Erythronium multiscapideum have been grown from seed from various geographical locations throughout our area.



Plants from specific locations bloom at differing intervals during the early spring.



The first of the low elevation, early blooming forms of Primula hendersonii are now in bloom. This is an early season favorite. Many low elevation populations are almost completely sterile, however through selective breeding fertility has been restored in advanced generation plants.

[Robert]

The flowers of Moraea elegans are vibrantly colored.



Moraea elegans thrives in our summer hot and dry climate.



The flowers of Narcissus jonquilla are sweetly scented.



A small clump of Narcissus pseudonarcissus.

[Robert]

Aristolochia californica attracts Pipevine Swallowtail Butterflies and their larva.



The flowers of Aristolochia californica are very interesting.



Adult Pipevine Swallowtail Butterflies feed on the nectar supplied by Arctostaphylos flowers and then lay eggs on the Aristolochia vines. This is Arctostaphylos densiflora ‘Howard McMinn’.

[Leena]

Robert, I can feel the warmth in your Narcissus pictures!
E.multiscapideum is also very nice looking, that kind of pale yellow is one of my favourite colours. The flowers look quite big, are they?

[Robert]

Robert, I can feel the warmth in your Narcissus pictures!
E.multiscapideum is also very nice looking, that kind of pale yellow is one of my favourite colours. The flowers look quite big, are they?

Hello Leena,

Yes, our garden has been sunny and full of blooming plants. Unfortunately, too sunny and dry. Unless conditions change quickly, here near the end of our rainy season, we may encounter extreme drought conditions this summer. I have to admit, as a gardener, I do not want to deal with drought conditions this summer.

In our garden, the flowers of Erythronium multiscapidium average 6 cm across. For this species, I consider this a large size. In the wild they are smaller, but then there are limiting factors to their growth in their natural habitat. In our garden, the flowers of Erythronium oregonum are larger, averaging 7 cm across. The plants in our garden bear creamy pale yellow flowers and have a different look to them. I hope that I can post some photographs of them. They just started blooming.

Is your garden still covered in snow? Or is spring still weeks away?

[Leena]

Is your garden still covered in snow? Or is spring still weeks away?

Hi Robert, still snow here except in the most early spot where snwodrops are pushing through snow:).
This is what most of the garden looked like couple of days ago. But I'm sure that by the end of March there will be flowering snowdrops under trees where there wasn't so much snow to begin with:).