Mother Nature Thinks It's Already Spring

I don't know about your side of the earth but a lot of things are signaling that it's spring on mine. The fashion industry's even already promoting their Spring Collections. Have you any idea which plant this is? Keep reading and you'll see.

It's still a few weeks before February but its kin is already up and have been showing off in the front yard for almost three weeks. She's scorched from the chilly nights and intermittent hailing and rain sessions.

I planted their rhizomes that looks like extra dark brown ginger some time in September last year but it has been quite a rather sunny autumn that this very first flower started budding as early as November. Do you think I planted it too early? I actually just followed the instruction on its packaging.

I wasn't really taking pic of the flower here but of their pest - the green and yellow green aphids but we're scarce in sunlight in November so using my smartphone on this one didn't help. You can still tell those are aphids anyway.

It's still very cold here imho (but remember I came from a tropical country -and it's mostly summer there) but as you can see these buds are already being eaten by them damn aphids. I wonder when the annoying ants do their delivery of them leaf and stem gnawers cause I've never seen any of them.

I also wonder whether it's because I mixed a bit of sand on the soil where I planted them just because ran out of loam and still had to fill them anthracites with soil so they've been kept warm specially that both rain and snow barely touch that part of the garden since the overgrown pine and the bushy, resurrected passion plant have served as some sort of an umbrella on that part, too. For that reason, I still had to water them during the autumn days we had not much of a heavy rain cause they love moist soil.

I can't wait for February to come because the first buds would probably be adding colors in my garden together with the hyacinths and tulips but it's really some time in March when they start exploding.

I took these two pics with my smartphone in March last year and they're growing both in our front yard and on the anthracites. Every year, they keep spreading. I expect to have more of them this year.

No, they're not the same. Those are two different anemones. I only had the "blonde" for so many years but someone gave me this last year. Can you imagine, I placed it on the center table in the living room? It gave me so many flowers but I let it out the moment I discovered there were aphids under its leaves early enough before it causes a plague in all the other plants inside our house. Can you identify which anemone it is? 10% up if you can. Let's see who else is reading.

The ones I planted in September has promised to come in different colors and I just can't wait for March and April to come cause that's when they'd paint my garden in colors! By the way, it's not spring yet, in fact,
we've had hails today and are expecting storm and some snowing to come but mother nature seem to think it already is.

_{This content's 100% mine. As I mentioned, I took some of the pics with my Samsung Galaxy A3 2016 last year and the rest with my Nikon D3400 + AF-P NIKKOR 18-55mm(with flash) .}

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