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![]() ![]() I also have a double white, which is very rare, and has extra petals. Then there is the white-flowered one (Trillium grandiflorum), which generally blooms for a longer time than the common one, and often fades to pink. Like all trilliums, it has three leaves and three petals. The common one is called wake-robin or stinking Benjamin (Trillium erectum). Trillium is technically a wildflower, but I have four kinds that bloom for me in shade gardens. It’s in full sun with lightly moist soil. It’s supposed to be a zone 5 plant, and I have had colder winters by far, but it keeps coming back. This is a bulb plant that I got as a gift over 20 years ago and the clump just gets a little bigger every year. The white blossoms look down like snowdrops, but are atop 16-inch stems, and have little green decorations at the tip of each petal. They both look a bit like snowdrops on steroids. Now I have spring snowflake (Leucojum vernum) in bloom. I especially like it because each little bulb seems to send up two blossom stems, one large blossom and then a second smaller blossom a while later. This year I have some lovely grape hyacinths (Muscari spp.) including one called “Christmas Pearl” that I got from Brent and Becky’s bulbs last fall. Then come the daffodils and tulips - many of which are still blooming nicely. I’m keeping a list as they bloom this year, and so far, near the end of May, I have almost 50 species and countless varieties that either have bloomed, or are blooming in my garden.įirst to bloom each spring are the small bulb plants: snowdrops, winter aconite, scilla and glory of the snow. Each year I anticipate spring with great enthusiasm not because I don’t like winter - which I do - but because almost every day there are new flowers blooming in my garden. ![]()
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