Fabulous Flowers
One of my favorite things about Montreal: the harbinger of spring here for me is a yard made of gorgeous blue flowers. I have no idea what they are, but they seem to be a perennial ground cover for some of the lawns on campus. The temperatures only barely became spring-like a week or two ago, and those brave little flowers have popped up on little hillsides, bright and bold as can be. While tree leaves are still slowly, slowly forming their buds, shyly waiting for that first truly warm weekend to burst forth with some tiny yellow-green baby leaves, these fabulous little flowers are showing us all they’ve got, just as soon as they can. And it’s only April! In Montreal! I love these flowers.
Does anyone know what these are? I need some in my future yard. They are gorgeous in April, and then just just blend in with the grass for the rest of the growing season.
Happy Friday all!
I think they're called scilla or squill, a bulb related to the hyacinth family. There is a really nice kind called blue scilla that blooms in early spring. They are currently in bloom all over the McGill University downtown campus, especially near the medical buildings...
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