It's finally spring!!!

[tripletfeb]

To bring a little more light heartedness into this thread, do yall keep plants? I love it when I find more plant people

My spring flowers started coming up over a month ago, way too soon. And some fruit trees have started budding which is way too soon also. But my crocuses have started blooming, which is nice. They are so pretty

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

To bring a little more light heartedness into this thread, do yall keep plants? I love it when I find more plant people

I don't really keep them, necessarily, but there are a lot of daffodil bulbs we planted around the property that are coming up now, and we usually get some crocuses as well. I've also started seeing the fairy spuds come up in the woods, that's the earliest wildflower we see here. They are more commonly known as spring beauties, but I like 'fairy spud' more.

 

[fluffycrow]

Ugh I love all those plants! Although I'm more of a succulent lover, spring flowers truly make your soul happy. My orchids are blooming, and after a winter they did not enjoy at all, the succulents are growing, and slowly but surely getting ready to bloom. I'm most excited about my lithops, which bloomed for me this autumn, so I'm hoping I did a good job at pollinating it, and hopefully I'll have some lithops seeds soon!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Wow, I'd never even heard of those before! For a second there I thought that was a picture of daisies arranged on some sort of weird foam structure.

 

[fluffycrow]

Wow, I'd never even heard of those before! For a second there I thought that was a picture of daisies arranged on some sort of weird foam structure.

They're super weird aren't they? I've heard a bunch of things about them, someone believed they were a mushroom, others a dead stock. Their cycles are also very interesting, all around they're definitely one of my favs

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

They are weird, but super interesting, too! What an amazing example of extreme adaptation in plants!

 

[fluffycrow]

They are weird, but super interesting, too! What an amazing example of extreme adaptation in plants!

Yup, I really love my weird succulents!

 

[maceleneo]

I don't keep plants, but I love wildflowers. Sometimes I "kidnap" them and transplant them in my garden. I really love spring because winter here is very long and when I start to see blooming flowers it warms my heart: it means that even if it's still cold, days are longer and the land is coming back to life.

 

[CaliforniaMountainChicks]

We just got finished with a snowstorm that people in my area haven’t seen in over 40 years! I live in Southern California in the lower mountains/very high desert (4500’) and got a foot and a half of snow (a little more in total but it started melting on Monday). Even the valleys that almost never freeze got flurries yesterday. It’s been snowing from last Wednesday to Yesterday here but now it’s finished thankfully and today the sun is out without a cloud in the sky. No more snow is predicted, just a wet spring! Can’t wait! Although I can’t plant anything delicate out (like tomatoes) until after Father’s Day because we’re susceptible for frost until then in the mountains! Next on my list is a greenhouse so I can start my seeds earlier and let plants get a nice head start for the Father’s Day planting. Last year our last frost was literally the night before Father’s Day lol. Definitely the only thing I miss about living in the valley is I could grow tomatoes all year round… however what I don’t miss is summer temps getting to 110 July-Sep… made chicken keeping a lot harder.

 

[maceleneo]

Where I live we have to wait until May 1 to plant tomatos, but I'm thinking about a greenhouse too! It would allow me to grow warm climate vegetables like peppers that don't usually thrive here!