Colchicum, erroniously also called the Autumn Crocus,
is totally unrelated to the Crocus which flowers in spring,
has proved yet again that life exists where it is least
expected. All the shrubs in this garden bed have
succumbed to our persisting drought, and still in our dry
and sere garden, this joyful emissary of hope appears.
All three clumps are flowering their hardest, feeding
bees and tiny butterflies alike where there is hardly
any other food available.
Wishing you all a Happy Easter, Passover or
just a little break in your everyday life.
Thanks to Luiz Santilly Jr. who initiated this meme
and to the whole team who make it such a success.
Beautiful color!!! Happy Easter:)
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful that these are surviving so beautifully! I hope that you get some winter rains and next year you have so many more blossoms on many different flowers!
ReplyDeleteBeautful !! Perfect for Easter !
ReplyDeleteI love flowers but the first ones of spring are always my favourite because they work so hard to come back. These are lovely photos, thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteSmiles
Good Easter Morning,
ReplyDeleteBeautiful flowers,flowers of hope just like we have hope since Christ rose from the dead.
Blessings,Ruth
Dear Arija, I love your words: "Life exists where it is least expected".... so wonderful. Lovely flowers too! =)
ReplyDeleteWow, very perfect for Easter. I love the color, and this is where I've seen a crocus with a top view. Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteDelightful little pink flower!
ReplyDeleteHappy Easter to you!
Arija
ReplyDeleteHappy Easter.
Love that there are so many clumped together. Gorgous captures.
Smiles B
How beautiful flowers.
ReplyDeleteThe color is very goog.
Great photos. I like it!
Perfect for Easter.
In UK Arija, we call these colchicums "naked ladies" because their leaves die down before they flower. They are such a lovely clear colour - I am pleased they have survived the drought - they are jolly hardy (as are we ladies!)
ReplyDeleteSO BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS ;)
ReplyDeleteGorgeous shots..love the bee in the center--peony in so lovely..Have a Blessed Easter-
ReplyDeleteLovely miraculous flowers! Happy Easter to you and your family!
ReplyDeleteOh these are truly beautiful! The colors are gorgeous and reminiscent of Holy Week.
ReplyDeleteI notice you have space on your sidebar so if you are so inclined to fill it up with more gadgets, stop by and get a couple. Happy Easter my dear friend.
those are so pretty.....
ReplyDeleteGill in Canada
Herbstzeitlosen! So beautiful! It's funny for us to see them bloom at Easter when here Spring starts :)))
ReplyDeleteHappy Easter, Arija
How wonderful that they are so hardy, something to look forward to indeed. Thank you for sharing such a beautiful flower.
ReplyDeleteArija, these lovely flowers are survivors and the birds and bees will help recolonize them elsewhere. I'm so glad you have some color in your garden.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful little flower! That bee seems to be enjoying her visit.
ReplyDeleteLast week I noticed at my friend's house a patch of crocus's appeared. She was moving house and when she went back to get them someone had dug them up! So thanks for your post today - they are so lovely.
ReplyDeleteThe bee is loving your flower, and so am I. Lovely garden.
ReplyDeleteSo nice to see a lovely flower for this year! I hope you get much rain in your fall and winter. It's a beauty.
ReplyDeleteAmazing flower and very pretty too. I like the shot with the bee.
ReplyDeleteI love the color and the little visitor with the flower. ;-)
ReplyDeletePaz
So pretty and so dainty. It's wonderful that they survived. Great photos.
ReplyDeleteNebraska Birding
Edward and I hope you are enjoying a lovely Easter!! Those flowers are beautiful and I love that you are coming into autumn as we are into spring. I feel that the joy of all the seasons is available for me via my friends all around the blog world!!
ReplyDeleteExquisite flowers, beautiful colors! Always love your photos and your words. Hope you've had a great weekend!
ReplyDeleteIsn't it amazing what will survive in spite of everything?
ReplyDeleteI read that the precious herb saffron is harvested from Autumn Crocus stamens, but the illustration looks only similar, not the same, as these. Yours are very beautiful and welcome to see even here in the rain and wet.
ReplyDeleteI saw your title and saw what I thought was crocus - I was confused. :)
ReplyDeleteThese are lovely. I love how you caught the light on them. Thanks for telling us about them.
Lovely shots.
My post is here: Carletta’s Captures.
Very beautiful crocuses! Thank you for sharing. Have a great week :)
ReplyDeleteSara, and all those who are confused: the flowers I have poted are COLCHICUM, alias Autumn Crocus. They are NOT related to spring flowering Crocus at all.
ReplyDeleteCOLCHICUM is beautiful but poisonous.
Saffron is harvested from CROCUS sativa, the only Crocus I know of that has an edible part.
I love these brilliant Fall flowers. Such brightness in the drought, too.
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting my other blog too. MB
A beautiful surviving bunch! Hope the situation with water gets better....All the best to you!
ReplyDeleteWonderful purple flowers. We get them too here, but in September!
ReplyDeleteThese crocusses are lovely and I am glad that there are again flowers in your garden . My garden is small and I have only two flowering shrubs: the camelia in the back garden. In the front garden a flowering forsythia and some bulbs.
ReplyDeletethat's really a joyful sight! love the shots, so vivid!
ReplyDeleteAre these yellow stigmas similar to the saffron we get?
ReplyDeleteAre these yellow stigmas similar to the saffron we get?
ReplyDeleteLove your colourful "Herbst Krokus".
ReplyDeleteWe are still waiting for spring and you are showing fall flowers.
Hope rain will return for the coming garden season.
-Cheers Gisela
Gorgeous flower, and perfect for Easter! Lovely photos Arija!
ReplyDeleteHappy Easter to you!
Those are really, really beautiful.
ReplyDeleteWe used to have crocus in our garden. They struggled to come out after the harsh winter of northeast, like your colchicum struggled out after the dry summer. Not easy to be a flower. Thanks for visiting our blog and nice comments.
ReplyDeleteArija: Very neat, I didn't know they had a Crocus to bloom late, very neat.
ReplyDeleteLovely flowers that will brighten up any place :)
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely beautiful, how refreshing to see such colors on my morning!
ReplyDeleteabsolutely beautiful, love the color..
ReplyDeleteBautiful. Love the last one with the bee.
ReplyDeletemy favorite color so lovely flowers. happy easter!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful series of lovely flowers that really remind me of crocuses. Hope you have a happy Easter!
ReplyDeleteHappy Easter to you! What a beautiful color for Easter - it's perfect!
ReplyDeleteSo pretty. Thanks for sharing & thanks for visiting my blog.
ReplyDeleteThey're very pretty flowers!
ReplyDeletewow those are beautiful i like how you capture the bee
ReplyDeleteThose are so pretty! Love the vibrant color.
ReplyDeleteOh my such gorgeous images!
ReplyDeleteToday on our TV, a presenter was showing a crocus flower. It looked like your photo.
ReplyDeleteShe kept the stigma and said it was the expensivie saffron.
Arija
ReplyDeleteYour post for TODAY'S FLOWERS is fantastic!
Marvelous flowers!
Thanks for visiting my blog.
Luiz