Siberian Squill

It's always such a delight to see these early spring flowers blooming after seven long winter months of snow and ice on the ground. This past winter, though, has been so wonderfully mild, with little snow, but it was still great to see the clusters of these little Siberian Squill flowers (macro shot), growing at the Reader Rock garden on 6 April 2016, when I called in after a volunteer shift.

I wanted to see what flowers had started to grow already, as plants in general are blooming early this year, thanks to the mild weather. The main flowers were all the Hepatica, varying slightly in colour with some paler and some darker. There was also a single Snowdrop plant, growing in its usual spot. Funny how this plant hasn't spread anywhere else in the garden.

"Scilla (/ˈsɪlə/; Squill)[2] is a genus of about 50 to 80 bulb-forming perennial herbs in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae, native to woodlands, subalpine meadows, and seashores throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle-East. A few species are also naturalized in Australia, New Zealand and North America. Their flowers are usually blue, but white, pink, and purple types are known; most flower in early spring, but a few are autumn-flowering.

Scilla has most recently been classified as belonging to the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae; the subfamily was formerly treated as a separate family, Hyacinthaceae. Prior to that, it was placed in the Hyacintheae tribe of the Liliaceae family." From Wikipedia.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scilla