white Glory of the Snow spring flowers
It’s been a cold spring here in the upper Midwest. But today it’s May 1st, a day when children used to make paper baskets for spring flowers, which we were supposed to leave anonymously on someone’s doorsteps.
Our bright sunshine and the greening grass brought to mind this song from the 1960s musical, Hair, titled Good Morning Starshine.
I took a wander around our yard to see how the flowers are blooming. We only have one daffodil among all the green leaves, and the hyacinths and the early yellow crocuses are done.
Spring Flowers Blooming Now
blue Glory of the Snow spring flower
Take a wander with me to look at the flowers we have now.
You’ll notice Glory of the Snow comes in both (pictured to the left) and in white (top photo).
blue Scillas spring flowers
Glory of the Snow likes to point its flower towards the sun.
To the right here is the Scilla, which likes to point its flowers toward the earth.
I’ve always loved these little blue flowers and they grew as a couple clusters in Mom and Dad’s backyard. Some people consider them invasive. They’re a bulb and we now have them planted in our front yard and enjoy seeing them.
Snow Flake spring flowers , a white bell with little green dots on the scallops of their bell
This summer snowflake is planted on the south side of our home against the brick planter.
It gets a hot west sun in summer time, but when it rains the water runs toward it.
We mulch around it to help it retain moisture and have irises and tulips planted around it to take the heat off of its feet.
The white tulips below are on the west side of the house against the planter. Yes, we are having a wind today. We use dark brown mulch to help retain moisture. We like the dark brown because it blends in with the dirt and isn’t so noticeable if the mulch gets thin.
When the tulips are done, the peony and the (unseen leaves) of the heucheras and astilbes have their showtime.
Tulips Blowing in the Wind
white Tulips blowing in the wind and the read leaves are a white peony that we place within a wire cage
Another Happy Spring Song
Another 1960s song that has popped to mind today is Oh Happy Day originally by the Edwin Hawkin Singers, and sung in the 1992 movie, Sister Act, starring Ryan Toby and Whoopi Goldberg.
Our dogwood bush looks magical with the sunlight behind it. You can just see our two ginger cats sneaking up on me in the background, checking out to see what I’m doing!
And we have spring food to eat! Winter onions and our first asparagus.
Asparagus, pencil sized, in the foreground, green wintering onion leaves, which in big and hollow, in the row behind, garlic growing in clusters in the row behind the onions.
This is our first year to harvest asparagus! We planted them about 3-years ago and finally we have some pencil sized stalks. One clump was so deeply buried in leaves, the asparagus tips were white, something that the kids’ Oma spoke of eating in her family when she growing up as a girl in Germany.
We only have three clusters of asparagus (we had planted five root systems), but we’re still new in some areas of vegetable gardening, so we’re quite happy with this.
unopened red tulips, the spiky green leaves of an allium, and our fun teapot log in our backyard, it’s in an northeast facing corner so lots of leaves from last autumn like to land here!