Signs of Spring

Even though we're still sitting at 0'C and there have been snow flakes whipping past my window all day ... thankfully nothing settled on the ground ... I have witnessed some Signs of Spring in the garden.

 

Snowdrops!  Such cute little nodding flowers :)

 

 Last spring my sisters and I had to sell my parents' house.  This was not a house that I had any feelings for, as they only lived there for two years.  My mom had brought to this house as many of her favourite plants as she could from her old place, and put them into her garden. 

 

So in the springtime before the house was sold my sisters and I dug up and removed as many of the perennials as we could out of Mom's garden, and transplanted them to our own gardens.  I didn't know what many of them were, but will find out this spring.  I didn't know I had the snowdrops until this past week.  I very nice surprise indeed!  No wonder Mom loved these little flowers as they are the first glimpse of spring here in my backyard. 

 

Next to show themselves are the iris.  I believe these will be purple and mauve, although not all of them flowered last year.  I hope they do better this year and recover from all this transplanting!

 

 

 Springtime was Mom's favourite time of year.  One of our farming neighbour's had a small wood in the midst of his fields and Mom loved to walk through this little woods looking for signs of spring.  Known to us as "Jack King's Wood", there was a pretty little pond in the woods, which helped supply the tiny flowers with water, and it was also a great place to listen to the tree frogs at dusk.  Here I am (foreground) with brother and sister admiring some tiny flower (can't remember the name of it now), which grew wild. 

 

 

 

My favourite woodland flower is the trillium, which is also a springtime flower.  We have gone camping in May and the woods have been a carpet of these beautiful white flowers.  The next shot is of trilliums, but from a previous year.   There is even a rare red trillium at the bottom of the shot.

 

Trilliums are Ontario's provincial flower, and it is against the law to pick a wild trillium here (although many people who live here don't know either of those facts!).   Since they are a wild flower, they don't transplant easily into a city garden.  Mom did transplant some of her trilliums from out of the woods and had them growing up beside our house in amongst some giant ferns.  It was a lovely woodland garden :)   And here is what they look like en masse!  Amazing! 

 

I hope there are signs of spring squeezing up through the ground where you live.  Have a wonderful day!

 Thanks for stopping by!

 

Wendy