Scilla flowers is also an early spring flower, basically at the same time as saffron. Also use bulbous flowers. It can also bloom in the autumn with buried flowers. Bees also love this flower. I guess the flowers here are all S. siberica.

1. This is a solitary bee. There are also a few of these flowers on my grass, and occasionally I can see the bees. The following photo of flowers were taken on April 5, 2005 (haha! On the same day! But 14 years ago!), Beal Botanical Garden at Dense State University.

2. This is a honeybee Apis mellifera. Pollen basket has dark blue pollen.

3. The honeybees fly towards the Scilla flowers.

4. This flower has been published on the cover of the magazine. American Bee Magazine, March 2013.

5. Another flower, also is very beautiful, is Xueguanghua, Chionodoxa, which belongs to the same subfamily. Some botanists can’t distinguish between the two flowers, and it is recommended that they can be placed in the same genus with Scilla flowers. I distinguished it by the shape of the flower. There is one in the middle of Xueguanghua, and the anthers of Scilla flowers are separated. Xueguang flowers generally face upwards, and Scilla flowers sag. I don’t know whether all Scilla are have the beautiful blue pollen, but the pollen of Xueguanghua is yellow or white. This flower prefer to grow togather, and Scilla likes to stand out.

6. The honeybee likes this flower as well, the pollen of this flower is yellow.

7. It’s so white.

Written at Qingming Festival last year, when I was in UIUC (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) . It was souther than here, and the season was about two weeks earlier. This flower has not bloomed yet! Basically at the same time as Crocus.

At Qingming Festival, I saw those Scilla flowers, blue flowers, and this make me imagine the color of the clothes of the newborn American boy. When he thought of his father, he got a poem.

Clear morning

Wind cold like winter

You jump into my eyes

Blue as the sky

Have to stop

Appreciate the flawless beauty

Very thin for you

Upright in the cold wind

The temperature did not reach sixteen degrees

There would be no bees

Children born in the United States

Daughter will be a pink shirt

Blue for boys

Dad, I want to pick one more

Blue cotton jujube

Here you are

Maybe back to fifty years

I do n’t remember, I was then

Should I also wear blue?

Photo taken at 2018 Qingming Festival 09:31

Written at Qingming Festival 2018 at 16:24 PM

8. Last year’s Qingming filmed Scilla flowers, but the flowers are all single.

9. They trembled in the cold wind and I did not see honeybees that day.