Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for January 2025.
Here in my USDA Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, we are snow-covered and have been for about the last 10 days.
That means I have to pull out my “emergency, always blooming” flower, the Crown of Thorns, Euphorbia milii to have any flowers to show.
It’s always blooming. Every day. Every season.
Elsewhere, I have color showing on the poinsettia that I bought in 2023, kept going through the summer of 2024, and brought in for fall 2024 so it would bloom for Christmas 2024. But while it is showing some lovely colors in January 2025, I cannot in good botanical conscience say that it is flowering.
That’s because those are bracts, not flower petals. That little bit in the center is where the little flower would be, but I don’t see it yet.
Now, bundle up, put on your snow boots and warm gloves, and let’s go outside to see what we can find.
(Or, if you’d like to stay indoors and just look out the window, I have lots of snow pictures featured on my weekly newsletter from last week.)
If you had ventured outside with me, you would have seen that I have a little sign that says “snowdrops” so I know that’s the general area where snowdrops are.
I bought that when I spoke at a garden event in Michigan back in spring of 2019, I think it was. I also bought some blooming snowdrops that had been dug up from the Ford estate, where they were taking over as an aggressive, perhaps invasive, flower.
In one of my less than smart moves, I kicked the snow aside where I know some of the snowdrops were blooming earlier. I don’t know if I expected them to miraculously spring up from being trapped under the snow when I did that, grateful to me for freeing them, but as you might guess, they didn’t.
Instead, they just broke off and lay there on the ground.
Oops.
This concludes this bloom day post.
What do you have blooming in January? Perhaps you garden where plants are actively growing and blooming right now? If so, join in for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day and share what’s blooming in your garden on the 15th of the month.
Yes, I also would love to have other cold weather gardeners join in too!
It’s easy to participate. Just post on your blog, Instagram, wherever you are, about the blooms in your garden, then leave a link in the Mr. Linky widget to tell us how to visit your virtual garden and post a comment to tell us what we have to look forward to when we do.
Always remember….
“We can have flowers nearly every month of the year.” – Elizabeth Lawrence
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