Are you prepared for a spring color therapy???
--> Here we go!!!
This beauty in purple is
Crocus tommasinianus (woodland crocus, Tommasini's crocus, early crocus),
often referred to as 'tommies', were named after the botanist Muzio G. Spirito de Tommasini (1794-1879), who was Mayor of the city of Triest.
They are native to Bulgaria, Hungary and former Yugoslavia.
And to the garden of the botanical institute of Wuerzburg university.
Crocus tommasinianus is often referred to as early or snow crocuses, but these terms are shared with several other species, although C. tommasinianus is amongst the first to bloom.
I took the photos on Sunday, 23rd February in the garden of the botanical institute of Wuerzburg university. All the crocuses were already fully in bloom.
I can't remember any earlier time of flowering of these harbingers of spring in Germany.
Last year it was the first weekend of March when I took the very first of these crocuses there.
Ok, let's change the color to a bright yellow...
What do you think?
These yellow, even golden crocuses look like "catchers of the sunshine", don't they?
Especially in front of the dark background of their bed.
Now let's change the shade of your yellow color...
... to a more pale version.
This blossom carpet is knotted by Eranthis / winter aconite.
Species in this genus are
spring ephemerals, growing on forest floors and using the sunshine available below the canopy of
deciduous trees before the leaves come out.
Most of you certainly haven't seen of these spring beauties before, haven't you?
Narcissus romieuxii is an early flowering species of daffodil.
It blooms in mid to late winter. There are many subspecies and cultivars, with flowers in many shades of white and yellow.
This narcissus species originated in the Atlas Mountains region of Morocco.
Here I used a texture to rework my photograph of Narcissus romieuxii- but textures only seem to be a girl's [femal photographers] best friend.
I'm absolutely not sure if this photo really needs a texture.
What do you think?
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Let's reduce the color to the minimum - white is beautifully and delights the eye... ;-)
Spring Snowflake (Leucojum vernum).
The snowflakes are native to central and southern
Europe, from the
Pyrenées to
Romania and western
Russia, but they have been introduced and have naturalized in many other areas, including the east coast of
North America.
It flowers one or two weeks later than the snowdrops, i.e., from mid-February to March, as soon as the snow melts in its wild habitat.
Last but not least:
A beautiful group of Helleborus niger, commonly called Christmas rose or black hellebore,
What's up with the springtime flowers in your part of the world?
