March 2021 in the Northern Hemisphere

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[Gabriela]

So many delightful spring images from all!

Snow is retracing a bit more every day now revealing signs of the spring to come

[Herman Mylemans]

So many delightful spring images from all!

Snow is retracing a bit more every day now revealing signs of the spring to come
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Gabriela, indeed a beautiful picture with the snow!

[Mike Ireland]

Pot grown in the alpine house, Ipheion sellowianum, not sure if this is still the correct name.

[David Nicholson]

Pot grown in the alpine house, Ipheion sellowianum, not sure if this is still the correct name.

Mike, apparently it is Nothoscordum felipponei now. Course, it could just as easily be something else tomorrow!

[Gabriela]

Gabriela, indeed a beautiful picture with the snow!

Thanks Herman, it's been a long, cold winter here and the first snowdrops are always very exciting. The snow melting goes incredible fast once it starts. Today, already a different scenery!

Pot grown in the alpine house, Ipheion sellowianum, not sure if this is still the correct name.

Under any name a very bright and cheerful spring plant!

[Mike Ireland]

Mike, apparently it is Nothoscordum felipponei now. Course, it could just as easily be something else tomorrow!

Thanks David, I was really confused when I tried an online check as so many changes seem to have happened.

[Andre Schuiteman]

Asteropyrum cavaleriei, a woodlander from southern China. It is evergreen, although the interesting peltate leaves may look a bit worn by the end of winter. New leaves will appear after flowering. I suspect it is not terribly hardy, as it doesn't occur at very high elevations in the wild, but it has survived -6 °C this winter unharmed. The flowers are only about 1.5 cm across.

[Carolyn]

That’s an interesting looking plant, Andre. The flower reminds me of some of the white flowered eranthis, but the leaves are very different. It does not seem to be readily available to buy....

[Andre Schuiteman]

That’s an interesting looking plant, Andre. The flower reminds me of some of the white flowered eranthis, but the leaves are very different. It does not seem to be readily available to buy....

It's from the same family, Ranunculaceae. Edrom Nurseries used to have it.

[Carolyn]

Thanks, Andre, I will keep an eye on their website and see if they offer it again.

[shelagh]

A quick trip around the garden between showers shows what has come out recently.

These Crocus are beautifully  marked but up by a wall where the sun doesn't seem to get very often.

Brian and I have tried Eranthis several times but they never come through again. These have defied the odds.

Haquetia epipactis is always an early plant but I must have missed on my previous photographic forays.

Our only Hellebore has just forced it's way through this week.

Hepatica japonica Gyousei is one of the last to flower.

[shelagh]

Hepatica japonica HoHo Beni is now fully out. This one always amazes me some flowers are double, some semi double and some almost single.

Hepatica japonica Toki looking well.

Hepatica nobilis Pink.

Finally Hepatica nobilis Pygmy strain from Ashwood's Nursery about 3 years ago.

[Gabriela]

What a nice Hepatica show this spring Shelagh. It seems the weather has been very favorable for a long flowering.

Asteropyrum cavaleriei, a woodlander from southern China. It is evergreen, although the interesting peltate leaves may look a bit worn by the end of winter. New leaves will appear after flowering. I suspect it is not terribly hardy, as it doesn't occur at very high elevations in the wild, but it has survived -6 °C this winter unharmed. The flowers are only about 1.5 cm across.

Interesting little species; the leaves remind me of a small Podophyllum and the flowers of a Coptis, a weird combination.

[shelagh]

Brian kindly lifted all the Hepaticas still looking good out of the greenhouse this morning. Top row H.j. HpHo Beni, H.j. Ryougetsu, H.j. Gyousei. Bottom row H.j. Toki, H. nobilis pygmy strain, H. n. Blue, H.n. Pink.

Our first tulips.

An Arabis that Brian has grown from our own seed.

Scilla bifolia

Scilla Pink Giant (I think)

Since we redid the garden a few years ago bulbs keep cropping up in unusual places.