Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - March 2025

Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - March 2025 

I think November 2024 is the last time I posted for GBBD.  I did forget one time, but there wasn't anything of note so it didn't matter.  Finally, some blooms.  Let's not compare to last March though.  (Although, if you want to compare, here is March 2024.)

A lot are little things like Striped Squill and Anemone Blanda.  The Prostrate Rosemary is small in comparison to other rosemaries.  (I don't like that plural!)  

The "Plum Under the Cedar" 

It was suckers from a cut down tree when I moved in.  The plums are small, but I like the tree for the flowers and autumn when its leaves are nearly pink.

Flowering Quince, Wild Violets, and the Flowering Plum still in a pot on the deck.  It would probably stay stunted if I planted it in the ground by now. 

I am not happy with the Vinca (Periwinkle).  I love the color, and I did plant it.  I planted it a good dozen years ago, in the front yard near the sidewalk, where it struggled ever since.  It's just too hot there.  Until this winter when it decided it was going to take over the front yard.  

There it is, with bearded iris and daylilies trying their best to push through. 

I saved the best for last. 

Purity Candytuft 

I completely forgot I'd bought this last March!

The crocus are gone (the last faded one in the back there), but in their place is a scantly flowered hyacinth.  There are scads of reasons a hyacinth has few flowers.  This is in an herb garden, and pretty much ignored.  It always surprises me each year it comes back.  

Tete-a-Tete daffodils.  I like these little ones better than the standard size.  I got that rabbit in the Goodwill Bins. 

The hyacinth reminded me of something from my childhood.  It's silly to still remember it, but that's how childhood memories are.  My mother must have read in some women's magazine that "Every Pretty Girl Should Have a White Hyacinth."  So, she, or more likely my father, who was the gardener in the family, got a hyacinth bulb and one of those special hyacinth bulb sprouting glasses.  How exciting!  Well, it grew, and the flower bloomed.  It bloomed deformed.  You can probably guess how I felt, as the "Pretty Girl" who had a deformed flower!  It didn't effect my self-esteem, but it must have been a big deal to me then to still remember it now!  

Hope your flowers are blooming well this March!  Spring starts, on the calendar at least, next week.