Spring Confetti

Crocus ‘Blue Pearl’ growing in my front lawn.

Early spring can be a season of tiny joys. Our earliest blooming bulbs are often wee bitty delights and I like to toss them about the yard like pretty flakes of confetti.

In high school, my friend group had a tradition of elaborate birthdays. We would decorate each other’s lockers and bedrooms with ever-more layers of balloons, streamers, and confetti. Then we’d kidnap you on your special day and haul you out to breakfast in your pjs. I’m pretty sure my old bedroom has a quarter pound of confetti still stuck in the floorboards.

Narcissus romieuxii among the native plants

February Gold daffodils

Nowadays I stick to flower confetti. While my beloved snowdrops herald spring is on the way, the crocus, tiny daffodils, and diminutive iris shout its arrival. They are easy to tuck in along paths and the front of beds. They wave at you as you sit cozy with a cup of tea or greet you when you perambulate the estate with the cat (who is closely supervised and seems to believe I’m in charge of the weather).

These are fleeting moments of joy, but you deserve to have tiny crocus dot the lawn or three-inch daffodils glow among the leaf litter.

Iris reticulata ‘Pauline’ blooming next to the path.