Crocus flowers

[dado potato]

I was raised on the prairie. I lived 50 years on the prairie before I settled in Up North in Wisconsin.

I remember seeing wild crocus blooming in the brown grass after the spring thaw. I am amazed that the crocus can manage to be an open blossom on that spring day when the first pollinators take wing. And it is a wonder that the crocus can endure, when snow falls or overnight temperatures are below freezing.

Photographers have taken pictures of crocus blooming in the snow, as I have seen. So there it is.

www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/crocus-snow.html

[razz]

They are beautiful images, Dado. I am always amazed how vital some forms of life might be in very difficult circumstances such as snow and ice.

[Tradd]

Gorgeous. Thanks for sharing.

[dado potato]

The wild crocus I spoke of growing in the prairie grass is not officially a crocus (which would be a species of lily), but rather an Anemone.

In English it goes by names such as pasque flower, prairie anemone, prairie smoke, and wind flower. It grows in unbroken prairie, where it can establish a symbiotic relationship with a fungus in the soil.

There is a romantic tale of an attractive young Anemone who meets up with a hairy fungus, and says, "You look like a fun guy... wanna have a relationship?"

The pictures of crocus in the snow are crocuses!

[Yppej]

I love these! Mine are not out yet but the chives right outside the dryer vent are.

[catherine]

So, awesome, dado!! Beautiful, and a lesson on resilience.

[iris lilies]

They are beautiful images, Dado. I am always amazed how vital some forms of life might be in very difficult circumstances such as snow and ice.

I know! It is always amazing the way they pick out from snow.


We have daffodils in bloom already here, the small Tete a Tete daffodils. Those little guys are so hardy.

[frugal-one]

Grape hyacinths are coming up.

[nswef]

Siberian Iris up here and the early daffodils are budding.

[iris lilies]

Siberian Iris up here and the early daffodils are budding.

siberians? Not likely. Those are probably reticulatas. Are they short?