What's blooming on the last day of February?

“February - the month of love..?!!
No wonder the shortest one in the calendar.”
― Dinesh Kumar Biran

A quick walk through the garden and greenhouse on the last day of February, of course there is a lot more blooming than this but these made the biggest splash in the little pond. 

Iris reticulata backlit

Fritillaria latakiensis

Fritillaria raddeana

Fritillaria carica

Some grape hyacinths in the rock garden

The weather has been it's usual unpredictable self, it was in the 60's this past week and then the weekend arrived and it decided to spit cold rain from heaven. Lows in the upper 30's last night and quite a bit of rain came down, I'm kind of surprised it didn't snow a bit. I know everyone feels that one week of warm weather in February which you can almost always count on to give people the false sense of spring. But my years of gardening experience have taught me one thing, it's that March can be a a fickle month, prone to outbursts of arctic temperatures often followed by summer like sunshine. Don't think the winter has left quite yet.

Cheers,

Mark