Last year, my snowdrops were up by middle of February; no such luck this year. It's mid-March and there's still lots of snow on the ground. So I'm sharing the only thing that's blooming at my house: a bowl of Muscari bulbs. I bought them at the grocery store when they were just poking the first bits of green leaves through the soil in the pot.
However, since they were bulbs, I pulled them out of the dirt, washed them off and put them in this bulb bowl from the Metropolitan Museum catalog. Feeling very Dutch with this combination of flowers and container! Stop by May Dreams Gardens to see what's blooming on this day in other gardens around the country and the world.
Beautiful container and bulbs. So good to see you blogging again. I have been absent this winter. I blame everything on this cold winter wind we have had. Unusual and unsettling. Happy GBBD.
Posted by: Lisa at Greenbow | Friday, March 15, 2013 at 03:11 AM
Lisa — Since our first snowfall didnt happen until late December, I thought that it would feel like a short winter. February was awful with more than twice the normal snowfall and it just keeps on being cold and snowy in March. The only thing to be seen in the garden is rabbit tracks and chomped up shrubs!
Posted by: Linda Brazill | Friday, March 15, 2013 at 07:39 AM
I have crocus coming up, if I pull them up and put them in a bowl and water them, will they still live?
Posted by: Janie | Friday, March 15, 2013 at 07:41 AM
Oh, gorgeous! I need that bowl.
I remember that we were in Madison last year this time and it was in the high 70s.
Posted by: Cindy at enclos*ure | Friday, March 15, 2013 at 08:24 AM
What a beautiful bulb vase and what a wonderful idea to take those muscari and repot them. Happy Bloom day.
Posted by: Jenny | Friday, March 15, 2013 at 08:26 AM
I love your little bulbs and bowl. I was fairly successful with tulips this year although I didn't calculate the timing very well. Defintely will plant grape hyacinths next year.
Posted by: commonweeder | Friday, March 15, 2013 at 08:30 AM
Beautiful!
Happy Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day!
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Posted by: Lea | Friday, March 15, 2013 at 09:30 AM
Muscari in a bowl! Thank you for explaining how you did that. I gave up paperwhites and Amaryllis in water, moving to soil, but I would try muscari as they are hard to grow here for more than a season (hot and humid summers).
Posted by: Nell Jean | Friday, March 15, 2013 at 12:10 PM
Nell — I literally just washed off the dirt and put enough water in the bowl that the roots would be in water. They all bloomed and every bulb sent up two flowers, one after the other.
Posted by: Linda Brazill | Friday, March 15, 2013 at 01:16 PM
I can't believe I would ever say anything like this, but I am glad winter has stuck around for a while. It bothers me when things bloom too early. Of course, I might sing a different tune if I lived where you do.
Posted by: Les | Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 08:21 PM
You would be singing a different tune with temps still ten degrees below normal (were in the low to mid 30s), snow forecast for tomorrow and the snow total for the season just over 66 inches. But I will agree that our lack of winter and too early spring in 2011-12 was disturbing.
Posted by: Linda Brazill | Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 09:01 PM