Bloom Drops

If I am lucky the first Bloom Day of a new year will start with a few drops at least showing a bit of petal. The critical element is snow cover. The first few drops could be covered in snow on January's Bloom day.



Day by day and drop by drop, snow cover willing, more drops appear. February's Bloom Day is near guaranteed to have an actual flower willing to sit for a portrait.



The last two fall bulb planting seasons the snowdrops were assisted in relocating over a wider territory. I went looking to see where Bulbarella planted them.



You can see how such diminutive bulbs can get lost in the debris and why even a wild cultivated garden can use a touch of spring cleaning.



Here's some cat's paws for comparison.



Most of the new patches of drops look to have landed in the ever expanding northern boundary of the wild cultivated garden. I guess the term boundary can be taken with a dollop of bulbs.



There are more snowdrops now than my first bulb show in the spring of 2008. Many more. Everyone of these pictures is from a different patch of snow drops. And I missed more than a few I am sure.



This is where it all began, the mother lode of snowdrops.



I was asked if the main patch of drops was looking depleted. Uhm, no. I think division has done them some good.



Day by day the sun creeps back into view. Next Bloom Day the drops will not be so lonely.



For a little more variety you can visit the mother lode of garden blogger's Bloom Day posts from around the blooming planet at a place called May Dreams.