Primroses (Primula vulgaris) was one of the flowering plants I had in my old home, where I lived before I moved to Spain. The climate there is continental; we could feel the cold winters, especially in January, but as the climate everywhere is changing, the winters are also more irregular. You can expect spring temperatures in January, and sudden radical cooling in February or March. Sometimes snow can surprise you at the end of March or the beginning of April, but that is rare actually.
Despite all the strange behaviour a winter can have, spring always knows when it has to arrive. It usually sends its heralds, the first flowers. Snowdrops, and later primroses.
You can also see those first spring flowers in the post of @bluemoon, especially violets. I read his post yesterday evening and remembered my primroses, those I had in our garden and the thought about those flowers stayed in my mind this morning too. My mother-in-law knows how much I love them so she sends me every year photos of those plants when they bloom. You can see them in the collage photo I made in Canva from some of the pictures she sent me last spring. I hope to get new photos this year too, I think in no time they will bloom. 🌸
Now, the fact is that I don't have a garden here, I suppose everyone who has ever come into contact with my blog knows that. I "only" have all those succulents that have lived with me already for several years in my balcony, those that survived (the majority of them 😅) bugs, drought, overwatering, moving and a small "climate change". They behave in a different way than the perennial flowering plants that are first in flowering; their blooming doesn't really announce the spring as the winter here is mild so there is not a huge change between winter and spring. The Jade Tree already bloomed last month, and the Lucky Bells too. Now, these little yellow stars are starting to twinkle. 🎶
At the moment it is just this one stem that brought buds and blowers, but I know it was a big change for the plants. They are doing well despite the move and my negligence. I have to replant some of them, I bought the soil two months ago but it still waits there, untouched. 🤐
This is the same plant, but in the shade - that is why its leaves have more green-blue colour and the buds are still not open.
The biggest change is coming from the Aloe Vera which has several babies!! 😍 Now I am not sure if I should still wait to get them out and plant them into a separate pot or leave them together with the mother plant. I didn't have good experience with replanting the babies... each time I took them out and planted them into a different pot, they withered and... you know... died. 🤐
It also started to grow a flower stem!! It blooms every year, and the stem grows quite tall. Fingers crossed this year Aloe Vera will bring its nice flowers too. 🤞 😊
Not as a spring herald, but flowers are always welcome. 🌸 :)))
