Well, I guess it’s a typical March Bloom Day.  The weather has oscillated from snowfall to 60 degrees of beautiful.  The last snow we had was last week and it disappeared almost as fast as it came.  With 70 degrees yesterday.

But this week we are back to spring bulbs in abundance.

The Winter Aconite (Eranthis hyemalis) are spreading vigorously and my thought is take some of the seed that appears this year and help things along by spreading it other places.

The first Iris has popped up in the front yard beneath the Stewartia

And the first Scilla are flowering in the woods.

A very special Hellebore is preceeding its brethren with charming striped flowers.

And the Adonis are still flowering in various parts of the yard.  Especially nice is the orange variant, Adonis amurensis ‘Chichibu Beni’

In the alpine bed the Draba is the first to appear

And beside it the first flowers are appearing on the Aubretia.

In the greenhouse, where I tend to think of it as South African spring, the exotic Ferrarias are capturing a lot interest at the moment.

There a number of other unusual flowers at the moment that make nice indoor treats

But for the indoors I have to give the most credit to the Clivias which have been spectacular this year.