Hepatica doesn’t display the earliest flowers that bloom each year. Those of bitter cress, henbit, purple dead nettle, bird’s-eye speedwell, and others appear in open moist sunny spots by late January ...

Daisy-like flowers always cheer me up. I think that is why I love spring ephemerals like Bloodroot and Hepatica. Bloodroot comes up in a cloak, wrapped like Phantom of the Opera and has a large ...