It’s early February & skies are overcast on the southern tip of Vancouver Island. The temperature is mild: frosting overnight but about 8 celsius in the afternoon.
The garden is asleep…
Mostly.

A friendly gardener has a happy display of snowdrops and winter aconite along her front border. It cheers up the neighbourhood.

I have to stop to take it in:

The sunshine radiates from the small yellow flowers, warming the snowdrops in their glow.

How many years have these corms & bulbs been naturalizing in this bed?

How far will they travel when left on their own? There are plenty of babies escaping into the edge of the lawn. I reckon a meadow is preferable to a golf green lawn anyway.

Thank you & hats off to the green thumb that put this all in motion.

It’ll be fun to watch it progress through the winter & into spring.
🙂

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P.S. Here are some other meadow faves:
January

• Meadow Blooms – Snowdrops
• Meadow Blooms – Snowdrops & More
• Meadow Blooms – Snowdrops & Even More Than That

February

• Meadow Blooms – Crocus
• Meadow Bloom – Summit Park Crocus

March

• Meadow Blooms – Chionodoxa
• Meadow Blooms – English Daisy
• Meadow Blooms – Daffodil Meadow

April

• Meadow Blooms – Fawn Lily
• Meadow Blooms – Wild Violets

May

• Meadow Blooms 5 – Beacon Hill Park Camas
• Meadow Blooms – Mt. Tolmie Park Camas
• Meadow Blooms – Uplands Park Camas
• Meadow Blooms – Playfair Park Native Wildflowers

July

• Meadow Blooms – A Grazed Meadow