COLOURFUL CROCUS DISPLAY IN TROUGH

I was beginning to wonder if any crocuses were going to appear this year after all the snow and freezing temperatures that have made the ground as hard as concrete.  I wondered if, perhaps, the squirrels had managed to eat them all; I understand that crocuses are a favourite of that agile garden marauder.  It's almost as if the buds grew and the flowers opened while my back was turned.  I have a small trough in which I planted crocuses last autumn and it seemed only a day or two ago that I looked and nothing seemed to be happening.  But the last day or two we have had some lovely sunshine although it has been, still, a little chilly.  I understand that this is just the sort of thing that happens in the desert when, after a long drought, rain falls and suddenly seeds are germinating and everything that was quiet and dormant, and waiting, suddenly bursts forth. 

 

 

I watched a television programme once which showed by time-lapse photography, a desert bursting into bloom after rainfall.   I was hoping to find a video clip of it but wasn't successful.  I did find this, a different BBC video clip of a desert coming to life after rain.   It's terrible quality, the video, but it was uploaded onto YouTube by the BBC itself.