A carpet of these little beauties emerged from the leaves. They are my favourite spring flower I think. I know them as Snowdrops, and Mountain Blue Bells, but honestly I'm not sure if that is accurate.
It looks like Scilla, Mel. Lovely things, those. My looking good thing is a new narcis that I planted in December: Also a hopeful pollinator on the blossoming apple:
I really liked this posting, DM. So much to see. Foto’s 1 and 7 were my favs. Esp. Number seven. What good composition.
I think they might be Puschkinia? I have no idea what they're called in English. Lovely display of blooms you've all got around you. I feel a bit left out since the earliest blooms were ruined by the snow and frost we had and the later ones are holding back because of the low temps. The Erythronium are braving it, though. This is Erythronium dens-canis "Moerheimii", Erythronium sibiricum, and E. sibiricum ssp. altaicum. The "Moerheimii" has extra petals and I love the ruffled look:
The only pretty thing I've got right now is this My Japanese ... ugh can't remember then nbame, but I am loving how it starts out red and just turns green!!!
Our old (antique) roses are blooming--Marie Pavie. And the amaryllis that we did not plant but appeared a couple of years after we moved here ( nonconpacted soil, and a bit of mulch?).
Both Sjoerd and Zigs are right, and the Scilla is a synonym of Squill. This plant belongs to the asparagus family. They are beautiful little plants.
There are a few varieties of Spiraea japonica, and I think that one might be ''goldflame'' there's one variety we used to propagate at work called ''goldmound'' which is all yellow in the leaf and not so pretty. I believe several others have more recently been bred. The two older varieties were rather prone to mildew as I remember, so watch out for that. I grow them here, and am quite fond of them. I believe the newer varieties are more resistant to the mildew problem - let's hope you have one of those
