Today is Easter Sunday 2022 and spring has begun in earnest in Chicago not that you’d know it with temperatures in the 20s when I rose this morning. Forsythia, crocuses, hyacinths, jonquils, and other spring-blooming plants have all burst into flower at once. That’s once of the big differences between my natal city, St. Louis, and Chicago. In St. Louis forsythia flowers starting in late February, followed by crocuses, followed by jonquils and others. Spring-like weather began in March and continue right into June. Here in Chicago they all bloom at once, remain for a week or so, and that’s it. We expect more snow over the next few days and temperatures in the high 70s or 80s next weekend. If that’s the case it will be the first weekend in the 70s we’ve had this year.
The picture above was taken on Kara’s and my morning walk this morning. She showed some interest in the clump of jonquils I had decided to photograph.
May all of my readers have a happy, restful, and blessed Easter!
Same to you. And, oh, the first 70’s here were in the first week of January.
Sorry
Same to you. Our weather is a bit more like yours but we have already had a few warm days. Our witch hazels bloom first, then the forsythia and bulbs. I naturalized a bunch of scilla and they come out first with the crocuses. Have given up on tulips since deer love them.
Steve