Something to look forward to. I always smile to see a clump in the bud. They look more like fungus than flower.
Isn’t it wonderful how they snuggle right up to those dead leaves? They make even last year’s leaves look good! Beautiful images — I especially love that top one with what looks like moss.
I liked contrast with the moss and the leaves. The pictures made me think of what it is like to pick a crocus. It’s something you should never do, but I must have done it at least once. The flowers have no stalks so you end up holding a sorry, soggy ex-flower – the flower version of a gutted fish.
Euw.
Yes. It’s not good.
Harbingers of spring.
It’s funny how we firmly associate the word with just a few flowers – hellebores never get to be harbingers. And also with spring – summer doesn’t have harbingers, or not in the same way.
Hellebores often start flowering in winter though. Snowdrops and crocuses are usually the first signs of spring. I’m now thinking about summer. Roses? Lilies?
They ought to be. There are harbingers of autumn too, but do we so readily use the word? When we see the first leaves turning brown or the first fine display of berries in the middle of summer. Or for bloggers, when our friends in Australia or New Zealand start sharing spring flowers far too early!
These little harbingers of spring are so jaunty. And most welcome!
Very welcome. They were making a beautiful purple glow elsewhere but I couldn’t capture the effect. It seemed full on to the eye but very subtle to the camera.
I find that is often the case.
I’m glad you included some of the faded flowers. The combination of the colorful blooms with the dried leaves is appealing, too. I enjoy seeing the seasons sharing the same space.
They faint away so dramatically. I liked seeing them with the leaves too.
Thanks for this. Somehow, I’ve seen fewer this year, and some of them a touch bedraggled.
Bedraggled is very much their style if we’re being honest, aside from a few days of plump prime, but they are glorious all the same. I went to my main crocus-stalking ground yesterday and found more patches than usual. I don’t know whether to blame my memory or a new planting.
So lovely! I miss them.
You do have abundant consolations!
🤗💟
Lovely blooms well photographed
Thanks, Derrick.
Mine have sprouted out this morning in the unexpected sunshine (where is the storm predicted)? Unfortunately, I can’t bend down today to take a photograph but I can enjoy yours.
beautiful – they’ve never established in my Hampshire lawn but hoping one of these days I will be able to create a purple lawn
They are my favourite shade for Crocus…such a happy sight!
Susan Rushton 
Lovely 🙂 Mine should be coming up any day now
Something to look forward to. I always smile to see a clump in the bud. They look more like fungus than flower.
Isn’t it wonderful how they snuggle right up to those dead leaves? They make even last year’s leaves look good! Beautiful images — I especially love that top one with what looks like moss.
I liked contrast with the moss and the leaves. The pictures made me think of what it is like to pick a crocus. It’s something you should never do, but I must have done it at least once. The flowers have no stalks so you end up holding a sorry, soggy ex-flower – the flower version of a gutted fish.
Euw.
Yes. It’s not good.
Harbingers of spring.
It’s funny how we firmly associate the word with just a few flowers – hellebores never get to be harbingers. And also with spring – summer doesn’t have harbingers, or not in the same way.
Hellebores often start flowering in winter though. Snowdrops and crocuses are usually the first signs of spring. I’m now thinking about summer. Roses? Lilies?
They ought to be. There are harbingers of autumn too, but do we so readily use the word? When we see the first leaves turning brown or the first fine display of berries in the middle of summer. Or for bloggers, when our friends in Australia or New Zealand start sharing spring flowers far too early!
These little harbingers of spring are so jaunty. And most welcome!
Very welcome. They were making a beautiful purple glow elsewhere but I couldn’t capture the effect. It seemed full on to the eye but very subtle to the camera.
I find that is often the case.
I’m glad you included some of the faded flowers. The combination of the colorful blooms with the dried leaves is appealing, too. I enjoy seeing the seasons sharing the same space.
They faint away so dramatically. I liked seeing them with the leaves too.
Thanks for this. Somehow, I’ve seen fewer this year, and some of them a touch bedraggled.
Bedraggled is very much their style if we’re being honest, aside from a few days of plump prime, but they are glorious all the same. I went to my main crocus-stalking ground yesterday and found more patches than usual. I don’t know whether to blame my memory or a new planting.
So lovely! I miss them.
You do have abundant consolations!
🤗💟
Lovely blooms well photographed
Thanks, Derrick.
Mine have sprouted out this morning in the unexpected sunshine (where is the storm predicted)? Unfortunately, I can’t bend down today to take a photograph but I can enjoy yours.
beautiful – they’ve never established in my Hampshire lawn but hoping one of these days I will be able to create a purple lawn
They are my favourite shade for Crocus…such a happy sight!