I pulled out all of my vintage Easter postcards for a group photo. They are all from the early 1900s.
I found a lot of blooms around my yard. This is the most daffodils I've had in years. They must have liked the winter weather.
Right near them was this little flower growing in the grass. At first I though it was a hyacinth but now I'm not sure. I didn't plant it, the squirrels must have done it.
This is another I didn't plant. There are 2 clumps of them in the back garden. I showed them last year and someone told me what they were but I didn't go back in my blog to check on it.
The Periwinkle Vinca continues to take over the whole front flower bed. It is pretty but I just don't want so much of it.
I still have blooming inside too. There are 3 more buds on the orange one and on the shelf below are the 2 pale pink ready to open. I think this will probably be the end of the cacti blooming season.
It got up to 69 degrees yesterday and now we are expecting 3-4 days of 70s. I have lots of outside clean up to do so I'll enjoy doing it with this warmth.
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Those little flowers are known as Scilla, aka Snow Drops. Bulb plants and will naturalize in the garden/grassy areas. They don't need any special care. The Muscari/Grape Hyacinth is coming up in my yard. I do believe you were warmer than we were yesterday! Happy Easter!
It's a cool but sunny Easter morning here in Western NY. We have been enjoying daffodils early this year, also. They look so fragile, but seemed to tolerate the 3" of snow this past week.
I love vintage cards and postcards,they are so sweet. I have a few from my husbands family, and have them out.
Enjoy the warmth and sunshine!
Adorable vintage postcards, Wanda--love those illustrations...
beautiful flowers starting in your area--no blooms here as yet--still pretty chilly with the winds off the ocean...Happy Easter hugs, Julierose
Happy Easter to you - I do think the bulb flowers enjoy the extra cold winter spell we had they are all blooming so well this year. Love your cards
Happy Easter, Wanda! Hope you enjoy working in your garden. It's a great time to enjoy the sun and fresh air. Marnie
Happy Easter - spring has sprung here to the point that we have pollen everywhere (green season on steroids this year). The sunshine and blue skies are so appreciated - enjoy your time outdoors!
Happy Easter to you and your family, Wanda.
I love seeing vintage post/cards especially with children on them - so sweet and innocent. Always nice to find a new flower, especially if you didn't plant it. Lovely & warm yesterday so did some more garden work, clearing out lots of Campanula that self-seeded between the concrete floor and brick wall. No soil there so makes me wonder how they can germinate and live in that position! Relaxing today, knitting a beanie hat for my Brother who likes walking. Lots of white chocolate today for Easter from my Daughter - I shall try to make it last haha - hope you got spoilt :)
Hi, Wanda, and Happy Easter! You’re right about the hyacinth; must have been a small bulb with just enough stored energy for the tiny flower display. The blue ones are scilla; at the Clinton Rosette house here in DeKalb the whole front lawn is naturalized with them. The blue haze of all those blooms is beautiful! Nancy O.
The blue-purple ones are squill and the white and lavender ones I think may be Aegean windflowers. Both naturalize well and the shallow small bulbs are often spread by ambitious squirrels. I have them all over my yard although I only planted a very few in a front bed a couple decades ago.
Spring flowers bring Easter hope xox
Oh Wanda ~ I love the style the vintage artist had in those days. I so enjoyed seeing your collection and the spring blossoming plants in your yard.
Easter is our annual day for a picnic down at the river. It was a nice warm day, but tomorrow a cold front is due to come in.
JJM
I agree - scilla and perhaps a chionodoxa. Some of which have popped up for the first time in my garden - or I didn't notice them before. As with your daffies, ours are spectacular this year too. We seem to have had very late snowdrops but all the spring flowers popped up at the same time. At the moment we have bluebells just appearing, primroses were out before the snowdrops and are continuing to bloom long after the snowdrops have gone over. Another appearance this year (and not last year - I'd thought they'd gone from over zealous mowing by my husband!) are snakeshead fritillaries. Amazingly a snowflake (leucojum) has appeared where it hasn't before - we've lived here nearly 3 years and it has never showed up in that time!
I do love your flowers, same for the wildlife and sharing your Easter cards was a bonus - they are lovely. Many thanks Wanda - and while I'm not a "pink" person - those colours are beautiful as is the quilt. You might have converted me!
What lovely bulbs you have blooming. We live in an old house and our yard is awash with both Siberian squill (scilla), the blue nodding flowers, and Chionodoxa, which are upright and bloom just a bit later. They both naturalize wonderfully and go dormant before it's time to mow the lawn. I hope they bring you joy this year!
It is funny how the chipmunks and squirrels rearrange things. I have one tulip that the deer haven't found and it looks like it is going to flower. This was one the critters planted. I have a lot of clean up to do to, but with what I did last fall I don't have as much to do this spring.
Yep, scilla. Non-native and very intrusive. But so pretty!
I have never seen Ester postcards before, have you been collecting them recently? I agree with you on the Periwinkle, definitely a takeover plant!
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