What's blooming in coastal Northern California

We continue to have an unusually dry winter for
us which is blamed on La Niña. We had no rain for
most of January (one of our wettest months), but
finally a storm went through with rain off and on
for several days which brought us 10 inches (25.4
cm) of rain in that short period. And we've had
an inch of rain in February (a couple of days
ago). But mostly we've had weather like they
probably get in southern California. Andwe've had
lots more light than usual which no doubt makes
some things I grow much happier. It seems there
can be a trade off when the weather is
unexpected. I remember years ago when Diane
Whitehead was keeping track of things that could
bloom in one year from seed that Sheila Burrow
from Western Australia (someone who is no longer
on our list) had some amazing success which we
attributed to the greater amount of light she probably had in winter.

A lot of people seemed surprised by my reports
from mid January. Some of those unexpected
bloomers are still blooming. I've looked up
(briefly) some of these things and find that some
of them are blooming a bit earlier, but others
are right on track. In bloom now or very recently in pots:
Allium hyalinum
Arum purpureaspathum
Babiana purpurea
Calochortus uniflorus
Crocus flavus, C. gargaricus, C. malyi, C. sieberi, C. versicolor
Cyclamen coum, C. pseudibericum. C. repandum is
coming up in various places including far away
from where it was planted. I'm so grateful to
Bill Dijk for encouraging me to grow the species
from seed as Cyclamen seems quite happy in my
climate and leaves are coming up all over the
garden in places I didn't plant it. There is also
what must be a hybrid in Cyclamen coum pot as
there are several different looking leaves in
that pot and some usual size C. coum flowers
blooming as well as some giant ones looking more
like the Cyclamen you see for sale.
Delphinium nudicaule
Geissorhiza inaequalis
Gladiolus caeruleus
Hesperantha cucullata, Hesperantha paucifolia,
Hesperantha humilis, H. latifolia
Ixia rapunculoides
Lachenalia aloides quadricolor
Moraea tricolor
Muscari neglectum
Narcissus cantabricus, N. 'Smarple', N. fernandesii
Nothoscordum felipponei, unidentified white
Nothoscordum/Tristagma (F & W Nothoscordum sp. 8485) looks a bit like this:
http://chileflora.com/Florachilena/FloraEnglish/…
Oxalis purpurea, Oxalis glabra, Oxalis obtusa,
Oxalis versicolor, Oxalis namaquana
Romulea kombergensis, R. tetragona
Scilla greihuberi
Scoliopus biglovii
Spiloxene serrata, S. capensis
Tecophilaea cyanocrocus var. leichtlinii, T. cyanocrocus
Tristagma (Ipheion) uniflorum
Triteleia hycinthina (a short form with only a short dormancy and a long bloom)

In the ground: Iris unguicularis, Orthrosanthus
chimboracensis, Romulea flava, Trillium ovatum,
Cyclamen coum, C. pseudibericum
Greenhouse: Cyrtanthus mackenii, Tropaeolum
tricolor, Canarina canariensis, xHippeastrelia
And seen out and about where I live various
unidentified Narcissus, Oxalis pes-caprae

Mary Sue

Mary Sue Ittner
California's North Coast
Wet mild winters with occasional frost
Dry mild summers