What happens in spring? The snow drops start to flower. What else? It's the start of baseball's spring training today. "Pitchers and catchers will report February 17th with full squads due five days later."
Spring starts in February as long as we move further south in North America - Winterthur Museum and Gardens near Philadelphia has flowers in bloom - Snowdrops, Witch hazel, fragrant white winter Honeysuckle, and early Hellebores.
Further south, to Texas there are Redbud trees, Mexican plums, Texas mountain laurel and others that start to come into bloom in February.
Britain has a much earlier spring than we do, even though it is further north so it has lots in bloom. In UK cities cherry trees are bursting with blooms, English bluebells are carpeting the woods, and wisteria fragrance is in the air.
But today, the news is about the first British blooming of an Amazonian flower - Selenicereus witti, a cactus known as Moonflower. It will bloom for nine hours. It starts with a sweet honeysuckle smell and ends with an unpalatable stink.
We're only a few weeks away from spring in Canada. Victoria's flower count starts March 3rd so is only two weeks away. In 2020 the bloomingest community was Saanich and citizens counted over 45 million blossoms.
It's Gerry's birthday today and here's a picture of him from a few years ago in Cuba.
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