pasqueflower

pasqueflower

Planning this year’s lawn care

Beckie Fox

Certainly, a string of warmer days would mean that serious garden cleanup could commence and that warm-weather flowers and edibles could be seeded or transplanted. However, for now, the cool days give me time to strategize.

The prairie crocus (or “pasqueflower”) often bursts into bloom before the last traces of winter snow have melted. It bears sumptuous cup-shaped lavender-purple flowers held above finely dissected fern-like leaves

A gift from the West: The prairie crocus

Stephen Westcott-Gratton

The prairie crocus (or “pasqueflower”) often blooms with sumptuous cup-shaped lavender-purple flowers before the last traces of winter snow have melted.

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