Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for March 2026.
Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6 garden in central Indiana, March has brought us winter, summer, and spring weather, and we’re only half way through the month.
But has all the weather-craziness stopped the spring flowers?
No, it hasn’t.
The usual parade of blooms is marching through, including the star magnolia, Magnolia stellata, which isn’t having it’s best spring bloom. As one of my college professors once said, you get good bloom about once every four years from most magnolias, at least around here. Guess this isn’t one of those years.
What else is blooming?
Rather than show you all the images of all the blooms, I’m going to post three collages. The first two are the collages I posted, or will post on my most recent “In the Garden With Carol” Substack posts. You’ll see the dates on them, which is the week I took the pictures.
Here’s the first week of March. You’ll notice I bought and planted out the pansies and violas toward the end of the week.
Here’s the collage that will show up in my Substack Sunday evening, March 15th, so if you also subscribe to my Substack, act surprised when you see it again. (If you haven’t subscribe to my Substack yet, go have a look-see and maybe you’ll want to subscribe. You’ll find me consistently posting over there every Sunday evening.)
And here’s a special collage I made on the 13th to show some flowers I didn’t have room for in the weekly collages.
As I announced in January, this, my 20th year of posting about blooms in my garden once a month on the 15th, is the last year I’m doing this! So as I did in February and January, I went through the old posts for March to see how they compare to this year.
Honestly, there wasn’t that much that was too different over 20 years, other than I have added more flowers every year, including lots of crocuses, Cordyalis, the Spring Beauties (Claytonia virginica), more snowdrops, etc.
All good.
Here’s my list, from last. year all the way back to 2007.
March 2025 – About the same as this year!
March 2024 – I do believe flowers were a little further along than this year.
March 2023 – There were patches of snow on the ground but the usual flowers made an appearance.
March 2022 – Pretty typical year, I’d say.
March 2021 – Also a fairly typical year for blooms.
March 2020 – I do think the Lenten roses were further along, but we had some snow.
March 2019 – A little slower start to spring flowers!
March 2018 – A bit redundant, but we also had some snow around the middle of the month.
March 2017 – Another snowy bloom day!
March 2016 – I think flowers were further along mid-month!
March 2015 – A little slower start to spring?
March 2014 – Another year with a slower start to spring.
March 2013 – About the same as most years!
March 2012 – Ditto other years.
March 2011 – Appears to be a tiny bit slower than other years.
March 2010 – More of the same!
March 2009 – Maybe a few days behind this year?
March 2008 – From the time before I started planting crocuses in the lawn!
March 2007 – A parade of crocuses and even a weed flower (dead-nettle)
And that’s this month’s Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day.
Wait, two more flowers! I went over to the side yard on Saturday (yesterday if you are reading this on the 15th) and spotted both hyacinths and some little unnamed pink violets blooming!
And…
Now I’m done!
Oops, I found the first little species tulip blooming later on Saturday.
I think this one is Tulipa turkestanica.
Now, I’m really done.
What do you have blooming in your garden mid-March?
Join in for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day and show us! It’s so easy to do. Just post on your blog, Substack, Instagram or wherever you share online about what’s blooming in your garden around the 15th, then come back here and leave a comment with a link to tell us what we can look forward to seeing when we virtually visit you.
“We can have flowers nearly every month of the year.” ~ Elizabeth Lawrence
(Yes, I am aware that my last post before this one was the February bloom day post. I’m blaming the garden fairies for the lack of blog posts. They are so lazy!)
With a shared love of gardening,
Carol
Hey we are experiencing spring blooms right now in India in the mid of march with unusual warmth in spring , Here is my post for Garden bloggers blooms day https://jaipurgardening.blogspot.com/2026/03/warm-spring.html. Thank you for this Gardening linky party to connect with Gardening enthusiast from around the world.
You’re welcome. Your spring blooms look like my summer blooms, but I see a few we have in common (pansies!) Thanks for joining in!
I think it will be another month before my garden is where yours is right now. Before the snow came back I had snowdrops, winter aconites, and the very earliest crocuses blooming. Now all the flowers are closed and the plants are draped and dusted in snow.
Oh, I forgot to mention the winter aconites, still blooming. Your time will come!
Carol, I hadn’t realized that you intended to end the Bloom Day postings after this year, how sad! I’ve come to rely on your blog to find other garden bloggers, and so enjoy seeing their gardens and sharing mine with those who care to visit. Would you be willing to pass this on to a successor? I’d really like to see the Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day continue. maybe one of your followers would be willing to continue offering this?
In any case, here’s my posting for today: https://mazastudio.blogspot.com/2026/03/march-2026-bloom-day.html
Certainly after this year, if others want to continue, they should. Who knows? I might keep going too but maybe not as formally? Have you checked out the gardeners over on Substack?
Carol, I enjoyed seeing all your spring blooms. Your garden is a coming attraction for the flowers in my area. Things are popping for you and I chuckled seeing you posting flowers you just saw. My collection is almost identical to that I posted on March 15, 2025 except that a different African violet is blooming. I will miss GBBD but, at this point in my life (caregiving), I don’t want to take on something I can’t guarantee I will have time for. Thank you for doing it for the last 20 years! Alana ramblinwitham
Alana, you’re welcome!
I forgot to link to my post and I thank those who found it anyway: https://ramblinwitham.blogspot.com/2026/03/garden-bloggers-bloom-day-march-2026.html
You have quite a few blooms Carol! Those hellebores are so pretty. I finally bought some hellebores last spring, but alas they haven’t bloomed. Our super dry fall probably didn’t help matters. Hopefully next year.
Like Elena, I’m sad to hear GBBD will end after this year, but 20 years is an amazing streak. Thanks for hosting this month and every month.
Candi, You’re welcome. Happy to have started it but time to break the mold, as they say, after 20 years. We’ll see what’s next!
Hi Carol, thanks for sharing. It is often surprising to see what you have in bloom. No hyacinths here and no tulips either but maybe I should go walk the garden again… — jw
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Every day, I find something new it seems, especially in the spring. Thanks for joining in!
Carol-your garden is looking great for March with so many blooms already. After 29.1 inches of snow, freezing temperatures, then finally melting, we are finally on the right track. This morning I can see the crocus and hyacinths coming up and hellebores blooming away, and I even got sod put down the other day! Spring has arrived!!!
Thank you, Lee. I can’t imagine still watching snow melt in late March, though that one year… we got snow late in March and it was awful!