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Eliza Waters 
I so love these.
They are a lovely color and such a treat to see after all the barrenness of winter. 💙
Yes!
Spring is here!
YAY! 🙂
❤️💕❤️
Thanks, Dawn!
🙏🏽💕🙏🏽
One of my favorite spring bulbs. They always remind me of some enchanted forest or something.
They have been spreading themselves around, so the effect is quite enchanting! 🙂
Naturalizing is another reason to love these pretty harbingers of spring.
Color everywhere Eliza, nearly have to wear sunglasses after so long in the dark 🤗❤️🙏
Yes, it is lovely to see the earth come alive again.
Lovely. Reminds me a bit of our naturally growing soap plant flowers. Even the san diego museum of natural history botanists couldn’t identify them. They are delicate like this with stripes. The wild ones growing here are white with cranberry colored stripes. I only identified them when I saw of photo of some.
Thank you, Cindy. Sounds pretty. 🙂
Lovely.
Thank you, Alys. 🙂
These are a very pretty blue.
Thanks, Anne. They have self-sown over the years and have spread over the lawn and wood edges – such a beautiful sight.
Beautiful contrast between the purple and the green – lovely.
Thank you, Flavia!
Looking like spring. 😁
Yes, at last! 👏🏼
Amazing color and so dainty.
Thank you, Alice. The past few warm days are helping a lot!
Chionodoxa! I guess these favorites of mine are now called scilla. I used to look forward to these bulbs coming up in my garden after the snowdrops. I wonder if the new owners are enjoying them. Yours are beautiful, Eliza!
Yes, both are now together in Scilla genus. An easy way to tell them apart is S.’chionodoxa’ faces the sky and S. siberica faces the ground.
I’m sure the new owners of your former home are enjoying the fruits of your labors. 🙂
A simply scintillating blue!
Little fairy parasols!
Such a yummy color — bulb plants always say Spring to me!
Yes, spring bulbs add great joy to these early days before perennials come on board.
Such a vivid blue! My Scilla peruviana are already long gone.
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Yes, I love the way they sprinkle themselves around the yard. 🙂 💙
Ooh, that blue! Lovely capture, Eliza!
Thanks much, Tina!
One of my favorite spring bloomers!
Thanks, Sandy, they light up the yard!
So lovely and delicate!
Thank you, Laurie!
Such a beautiful shade of blue!
Thank you, Denise, so rich and vibrant!
Such pretty flowers. Another spring favourite!
Thank you, Belinda. Little miracles that magically appear every year!
Oh, they are special, aren’t they? They’re blooming like crazy in my garden now, too. 🙂
Little pockets of joy!
Yes! Love the image, and I love the way the flower pops up around my yard.
Thanks, Tom, a happy sight to see!
pretty flowers
Thanks, they make me so happy to see them!
Love a carpet of these little gems!
So cheering! 💙
This is an interesting little plant. It popped up on a road verge in my village and I wasn’t sure what it was at first. Not a native in England but it was clearly on a wander from a garden 🙂
Yes, they naturalize quite readily, but with their short presence, don’t seem to be a problem.
This is a lovely blue. One of my favourite plants in KZN (also a lovely blue) was known as Scilla natalensis (blue squill), but it has been reclassified as Merwilla plumbea.
Ooh, that is a pretty plant! You could probably grow Scilla peruviana, the Portuguese squill, which is a truly beautiful flower as well.
Oh my! The colour! The COLOUR! Sigh…
🙂 Glad you liked, Isha. It is a lovely blend of midnight blue and purple. 💜💙
It is the blend of dusk and dawn 🫶🏻✨🕯️ #swoon
A beautiful blue! It seems that many of the early wild bloomers in springtime sport this color (in our case it’s wild flax and lupines).
Ooh, that must be a lovely sight. Thanks, Tanja!
So pretty – that blue is a dream. 😄
Thank you, Cathy!
Lovely flowers. Mine are out as well…Good to be back at home to see all of the spring blooms coming out. (Suzanne)
Thanks, Suzanne. It’s my favorite time of the year!
Me too except for the fickle weather patterns. I am really looking forward to getting more warm weather…