April 14 - First bloodroot blooms

Post date: Apr 15, 2013 6:08:55 PM

What a difference a year makes!

The spring of 2013 has been very cold and wet, in one corner of the neighborhood, there is still a pile of unmelted snow.

Today I found the first blooms of bloodroot in the woods- last year, bloodroots were in bloom March 18th, almost 4 weeks earlier.

In 2010, bloodroots were in bloom on April 7th.

I have high expectations for seed germination on the north facing slope, due to all the rain we have had lately.

Last fall I overseeded with a mix of prairie plant seeds collected during a seed sharing event;

hopefully conditions will be right for a bumper crop of new plants this year.