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!
Wow, I am surprised how much your daffodils are up already! Otherwise we are very similar in season right now, just slightly behind you as usual. Your iris are really fab this year! Loved seeing them on IG too. Happy GBBD Carol! 🙂
Thank you. Those irises are wonderful!
Oh, I love your iris reticulata! I don’t have any, nor do I have snowdrops, but in a small park near my house birds or some other animal planted some snowdrops, and they are just starting their bloom. Your daffodils are nice coming attractions for me. Sorry I can’t help on the small white flower. I have a star of Bethlehem plant (something that just showed up one year) that hasn’t started to bloom yet, but that isn’t what you have. If you are stumped, I am stumped!
I’m pretty sure it’s a scilla and by the way, I’d dig up and throw away that Star of Bethlehem flower. They are highly invasive!
Wow, spring has arrived in your garden with so many blooms for March! I especially love your iris reticulata, and of course your violas! Here the Hyacinths, Allium, and Crocus are making a debut with foliage emerging and blooms to follow, and the Hellebores are in bloom from late winter into early spring. Happy Bloom Day!
My hyacinths just missed being open for bloom day, but should be a nice display for this week (in between raindrops.)
I have allium coming up, some weedy stuff that you’ve reminded me I need to pull out. This rain will make that much easier!
After a few months of no flowers it’s lovely to be back with a few!
I’d love to link, but it won’t accept my image. No, it accepts it, but then says it’s missing an image. I resized it smaller, which is what I have to do each GBBD, with no issues, but today it keeps insisting I didn’t add an image. I did. Over and over.
So… if anyone finds this in the comments…
https://lisasgardenadventureinoregon.blogspot.com/2025/03/garden-bloggers-bloom-day-march-2025.html
I found your comment! Not sure about that linking but I’ll try to link for you.
Many beauties blooming there, Carol. We had some cold weather followed by very warm weather here in Madison, too. No snow, though. Lots of rain recently. The plants are happy. I don’t have many outdoor blooms yet, but it won’t be long now. Thanks for hosting GBBD!
You’re welcome and I’m surprised you don’t have any blooms yet. You aren’t that far north of me.
Wow, your dwarf irises are to die for! How long did they take to grow so lush? This is my first year growing these in my garden, I can’t wait for mine to begin to look anything like yours. I don’t think the tiny white flower is a squill–the shape seems wrong. Perhaps it’s Glory of the snow (Chionodoxa)?
I planted the irises about 10 years ago, give or take. I’m pretty sure the little flower is a Scilla of some kind. Too early for Glory of the Snow!
Your garden is definitely celebrating spring! As always, thanks for hosting GBBD, Carol. Spring arrived early in my part of the country but then that’s normal given that winter is only a figment of the imagination here.
You should move to wear spring is a big welcome party after the winter! (Ha!)
Please tell us all if you find out the name of the white flower. Does it really have pink anthers?
Yes, it really has pink anthers. I’m pretty certain it is Scilla bifolia ‘Rosea’
Looking good there Carol! It’s windy and dry here, but I scared up a few things. ~~Dee
I love that last photo, with the crocus popping up in the grass. Happy spring!
Carol, I am way late on responding to your wonderful Iris reticulata. I have been overwhelmed by all the spring flowers happening now. That is definitely Scilla bifolia ‘Rosea’. They have spread nicely in my woods. I wrote them up on a posting in 2009 (https://macgardens.org/?p=531)
Could your white flowers be claytonia virginica (spring beauties)? By the way I listen to your podcast every week. It helps me get through my cleaning day chores!
Patty, Happy to help you through your chores! I am pretty certain now my flower is Scilla bifolia ‘Rosea.’ I have spring beauties in my garden in back, hopefully, that should be blooming in a week or so!