Camellia pure white

Well, not only has spring jumped forward for this Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day, but it looks as though we are done with frost for this year, weeks in advance of the norm.  The Camellias have had a great run of bloom, producing more flowers than we could have imagined.

Camellia pink in abundance

The daffodils and hellebores have provided multiple pickings each day to feed the household vases.

Daily indoor spring flowers

Meanwhile, I go on a daily treasure hunt to see what has popped up from previous plantings.  Like the following little treasures.

Erythronium revolutum ‘White Beauty’

Ranzania japonica

Peltoboykinia watanabe

Primula kisoana

Helleborus x hybridus ‘Peppermint Ice’

Oxalis griffithii – Double Flowered

Trillium pusillum ‘Roadrunner’

And then there is the further development of plants I had noted in earlier posts, like this lovely anemonella

Anemonella ‘Green hurricane’

And the last of the adonis.

Adonis amurensis ‘Sandanzaki’

Of particular note are the bloodroots.

Sanguinaria multiplex

These last in flower much longer than the standard species.  Similarly, the new semi-double cultivar ‘Snow Cone’ is wonderful in the way that the flowers expand in size each day and lasts about as long as the double-flowered.

Sanguinaria ‘Snow Cone’ next to Corydalis ‘Beth Evans’

Sanguinaria canadensis Snow Cone’

This little beauty came from Garden Visions.

Then there are flowers in the troughs and alpine beds like this very tiny phlox.

Phlox sileniflora

and this colorful geum

Geum reptans

The dwarf columbine has it’s first flowers out

Aquilegia flabellata v. nana

And some of the flowers I’ve noted earlier have continued to expand.

Aubrieta ‘Blue Beauty’

Lewisia longipetala ‘Little Raspberry’

Armeria maritima ‘Victor Reiter’

There is also a very compact, low to the ground ornithogalum that I can’t put a name on at the moment (but it’s lovely even without a name)

Delightful ornithogalum in the alpine bed

Finally, I spent a couple of seasons trying to trace down a single pink anemonella, and I finally have one that is blooming very nicely.

Anemonella ‘Single Pink’