Every day there’s more crocuses coming up under my kitchen window. Today I had five of them in bloom, but I can see three new buds already. It’s too bad that my crocus patch is shaded in the evening so the only chance I have of seeing them open is during the weekend, so I was happy about the sunny morning today because it gave me the opportunity that I was waiting for!

I checked out the hepatica again to see if any of the buds I saw yesterday would be open already, and a couple of them were. So the hepatica are now officially in bloom, which is roughly the same time as last year.

I came to realise that it’s worth taking the same pictures of the same flowers year after year, after all. I decided a couple of years ago that I wouldn’t do it but the budding botanist (pun intended) in me appreciates the documentary value of the pictures. It works if you write down when this or that flower was in bloom, but it’s much better to have a picture of it in the catalogue!