An Award Winning Bloom Day

The Witches are out.

'Diane'

'Jelena'

With snowdrops

How many crocus will that deer leave me? I have a lot and some to spare. But how dare you!

A deep red Lenten Rose.

Don't forget 'Arnold'

A Bloom Day bonus comes from a garden planted by a British couple, both doctors, who were well connected to the botanical gardens circuit at the time. It has plants I have never seen or heard of.

One of them bloomed and revealed itself to me this week. This is Parrotia persica, Persian Ironwood. It kept telling me it was a Witch Hazel. It was blooming with the witches! Parrotia is another genus in the family that comes from Iran. Here it was in the garden of British doctors. There has to be a story there.

Everything I read about it said the flowers were not considered showy. I'm still going to watch.

Plenty more Bloom Day bonuses at May Dreams Gardens.

The Witches live in my garden.