Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for March 2025.
Here in my USDA Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, I have just one thing to say…
“What a difference a week makes!”
Eight days ago, we had a heavy dusty of snow on the ground and it seemed as though winter wasn’t going to quit. Since then, the weather has steadily improved and the last week has been just outstanding.
Spring is here!
While we are far from frost-free, the garden is springing forward, just like that time-change on Sunday, which I think I’m finally adjusted to.
The first bloom I’m showing is the blooms of my vernal witch hazel, Hamamelis vernalis. I can recommend it for early spring blooms, but they aren’t the prettiest and showiest. That’s okay, they have a nice fragrance.
Nearby, the Lenten roses, Helleborus sp., are blooming too.
I cut them back a few weeks ago so they still look a little rough, but those flowers will continue for a while, the plants will grow, and they’ll be perfect hiding places for Easter eggs for the big hunt in April.
I’ve been enjoying snowdrops for what seems like months, because they have been blooming, more or less, often less, since late last fall.
They are just at peak now!
In the front garden, I put a reel on Instagram to show off my Iris reticulata.
As you can see, I need to dig some of these up and spread them around a bit. They’ve really multiplied over the years!
Nearby, is this tiny white flower.
A Scilla of some type? You tell me, but that’s what I think it is.
I definitely know these are the Tête-à-Tête daffodils
They are always the first to bloom in my garden. They are all of six inches tall and as you can see, have slowly ended up kind of under some shrubs. Time to move them too.
One of the “big” daffodils also decided to open up for bloom day!
I’ve forgotten he variety name of this daffodil, so I just call it “Fried Eggs.”
Oh, and the “big crocuses,” like ‘Pickwick’ are starting to bloom too.
But honestly, March bloom day belongs to my beloved pansies and violas.
You can see I’ve just planted these violas so they aren’t as showy as they will be for Easter in April, but they look wonderful to me. (And yes, in this photo, you can see off in the distance the crocuses blooming throughout the back lawn and the snowdrops in the flower beds.)
And that is March in my little garden.
What’s blooming in your garden as we approach the middle of March? Join in for Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day and show us! It’s easy to participate. Post on your blog or Instagram or wherever about what’s blooming in your garden around the 15th of the month, then leave a comment to tell us about your blooms, and if it works for you, put a link in the Mr. Linky widget.
Many thanks to the southern garden writer, Elizabeth Lawrence, who once wrote, “We can have flowers nearly every month of the year.” It inspired me to start this long-running garden blog meme back in 2007!
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