I love those painted on flowers. I can remember many years when I thought I'd lose my mind if the snow didn't stop coming and cold finally cede to the spring weather.
I love the painted on flowers, too. When we lived in Idaho (and even down here in Alabama) I went to the dollar store and the thrift shops and found the plastic flowers, cut the stems down and then took that black electrical tape and taped the pretty blossoms onto our lilac bushes, and the azaleas, and all winter long, we had bright flowers blooming outside. The next spring, they were still looking great when the shrubs turned green again, so we even had interesting colored flowers along with the real blossoms when they showed up. People driving by would stop to look and one even asked me where I found those odd-colored azaleas.
With all the snow we have had in the past while, my "SNOW FLOWERS" are doing just fine.. I suppose they have started to grow and will most likely look pretty healthy as we also had some pretty low freezing temperatures especially at night.. Around the -24c mark... So far this season, we have received about 3 feet of snow... That's about 90 cms....
You are doing GREAT, @Steve North , just keep on collecting all of that snow up there in Ontario. We do not need it or want it down here in Alabama, and you are most welcome to any that might be coming in our direction, too. We want to do our part to help your snowflowers grow really TALL under that snow this winter. Blessings.....
Well, I guess it is time for me to plant the snow flower seeds again for this winter.. Every year, I plant dozens of snow flower seeds about 10 inches apart.. They make the winter so much more pleasant looking out of the window knowing the flowers are blooming.. What happens is, as the snow accumulates over the seeds, they start to grow.. As the snow gets higher, they grow higher as well, however they NEVER break the surface of the snow.. They always stay below the surface of the snow.. As the temperature drops below the -20c mark, they start to multiply, filling up the spaces I left between the seeds.. Eventually, the whole front lawn area gets covered with lovely snow flowers.. Now, as the snow melts in the spring, the flowers shrink as well and eventually when the snow is all gone, so are the snow flowers..
What a wonderful idea Steve... how pretty that must look... is it something like these... I googled Canadian snow flowers...
Those look like a crocus to me, @Holly Saunders . I am pretty sure that Steve is telling us another one of his tall tales about planting the snow flowers though. Since they are always under the snow blooming all winter, they are never seen under there, and they fade out as the snow leaves, they are just imaginary flowers that Steve “plants” each year and enjoys the idea that under all of that snow there are snow flowers blooming.