January 8, 2020

If Winter’s Here

IF WINTER’S HERE CAN SPRING BE FAR BEHIND?

Three perennial flowers that brave EARLY spring.

Darmera peltata, Umbrella plant Z 5-8
Well before its dramatic leaves appear, leafless red stems shoot up from the earth, as if from nowhere, then a sphere shaped by many pink flowers tops it all.

 

 

 

 

 

OOPs – my friend Dean, a Primula expert, pointed out that this Primula  is Primula elatior, Oxslip.  Sorry for the confusion – Betty

 

 

 

 

 

Pulsatilla vulgaris Pasque flower Z 4-8
Purple petals open their bells to show off its circle of white-tipped stamens, fertility. Druids may have grown this for the festival of the dawn goddess, the awakening of spring.