It’s the First Day of Spring
Spring Vibrations
Today is officially the first day of spring for 2024. Here in central Florida signs of spring started about a month ago with some early blooming wildflowers and the occasional clouded sulfur butterfly. By now our iconic spring flowers, the Drummond’s phlox (Phlox drummondii), are popping up everywhere that there is open ground and plenty of sun. It always makes me happy to see…
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Pipevine Swallowtail on some blue phlox.
St. Francois State Park, Missouri
2023
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Moss Phlox (lat. Phlox subulata)
Флокс шиловидный (лат. Phlox subulata)
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The First Beautiful Phlox Flowers are Here
First Phlox of Spring
The last two days have been miserably rainy and kind of cold, keeping me pretty much confined to the house. Days like that always make me feel tired and blah, so I was very happy to see the sun shining this morning when I woke up. When I headed into town to complete some errands, I was also very happy to see a few little Drummond’s phlox flowers (Phlox drummondii) blooming…
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My friend gave me these flowers yesterday 🙂🌸
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5/5 of the peonies I planted last fall have started to emerge! The tulips and allium and daylilies are up, and all of my phlox has new growth. And my established peony is coming in strong. The flower beds are waking up!
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Early spring flowers in my yard, plus some garlic that I planted in 2021 and that didn’t sprout at all in 2022, but somehow decided to stage a comeback in 2023
Scilla mischtschenkoana (White squill)
Hyacinthus orientalis (Common hyacinth)
Muscari armeniacum (Grape hyacinth)
Tulips (no idea what species/variety I planted years ago)
Vinca minor (Periwinkle/Myrtle)
Phlox divaricata (Woodland phlox)
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Candy Striped Phloxes - cg photography
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