First flower that I have seen this year.
Awesome picture, I.D. 
Gorgeous!! 
'Tis a crocus. Blimey, they’re late round your way. Ours are all over for this year!
Looking at it again, I especially love the little bee sniffing the flower! So cute!!
He lives in MN. That’s basically Canada. I have a friend who moved there and she told me the last snow melts August 1 and the first snow falls on August 2.
Another picture on the same day.
As you can see, we still have some snow (with a chance of snow this Tuesday), but by 5:00 yesterday it was about 65°F (18°C) and with the sun out it felt much warmer, so we pulled out the grill and lawn chairs and grilled outside for dinner.
Snowdrops were also popping up through the dead leaves. Next week, if we get a chance, we’ll head out to Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and hunt for Bloodroot and trout lilies.
Hard to believe you’re still at the snowdrops over there, here the daffodils have long since come and gone (They were at their peak a month ago). Mind you, we’ve not touched 18 C either.
Out here the Primroses are in full flight all around the house and along the roadside and under bushes along the road. These are a bit battered by the winds but it’s nice to have them anyway. Last year they were particularly abundant, now less so.
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The photos I shot were at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum.
Still no Trout Lilies this weekend, but we did have,
Bloodroot
Snow Trillium (note the Trout Lilly leaves)
Skunk Cabbage
Hepatica
Wow, ID, do you plant native species? We’ve actually bought trout lilies, possibly bloodroot, and several other native species in an attempt to displace the invasives. We’ve also gotten native bleeding hearts, two species of blueberries, jacks in the pulpits, and several things I don’t know the names of (my wife is the botanist).
Our gooseberries started leafing out yesterday! Thus is the world reborn!
No, I live in an apartment, so I end up going to the local wildflower gardens.
My favorite native species-- redbud
these little guys are 10 yrs old-- I planted them from seed!
there’s a white variety as well
These pictures are from this weekend-- here in the tropics of Maryland…
I love redbuds! In the woods they are really pretty with the wild dogwoods as contrast.
A town in our county is known as the Redbud Capital there are so many. This past weekend was their annual festival.
Redbuds are our state tree.
I agree, same here.
It all means nothing unless you snuffed the bee and plucked the flower.
Last time my goat did that he got stung in the nose and suffered early hay-fever.
But he did a double jig and was very entertaining for a while. (he has 4 legs - 3 would have been a slip-jig, 2 would have been a rap-dance-circle, one would have been a mirracle 
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