March 2020 Bloom Day

Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day
What's blooming in the garden on the 15th of the month

Not too much blooming yet. The crocus came and went when the temperatures soared into the 70s (20s C). Spring is a few weeks early this year, but I am not at starting seeds indoors. See the post before this one for the daffodil from nowhere.

Hellebores are lovin' it. I still need to find that pink one and separate it.

Hyacinths are just starting. Mixed pure white with "Sky Jacket" blue years ago. They don't come out as big as new, but they still bring a smile to my face (and my nose.)

Magnolia stellata 'Dr. Merril'.

This is over 30 years old - one of the first plants put in when I bought the house. Its form is more like a maple - strong single thick trunk - rather than a traditional star magnolia. And, with blooms as big as your fist, it perfumes the entire neighborhood.

For other garden bloggers' bloom day photos, spring over to the blog May Dreams Gardens.

Out of Nowhere

I am ready to start sharing my garden again. Now, I know that everyone has seen a daffodil. But this one is special. It came from nowhere in the middle of the bed of iris that I planted from my own cross-breeding seeds. It is not one that I planted, recently or in the distant past because I do not like these double flowered types and would never have planted them. I have a few possible explanations:

• It grew spontaneously. This may be true, but it I, unlike some presidents, believe in science - daffodils don't just appear out of nowhere.
  
• I planted it in the past when it accidentally got mixed in a batch of other types at the store. It then grew legs and walked down the hill and planted itself in this location.
  
• Some of my other daffodils had a night of passion one year, and this is the result.
  
• It was there for a time and this year got large enough to bloom. Yes, I believe there were daffodil leaves there in the middle of the iris iris bed last year with no blooms.
  
• Someone or some animal known to dig up bulbs did so from a neighbor's yard and planted it here years ago, and it got enough food stored up this year and bloomed.

I have lived here for 31 years, and never saw this daffodil on the property. There is one more bloom in the same "clump". I checked the immediate neighborhood -- no one had this type of daffodil.

Offer your own explanations.