Craig County Tourism

Our two most common harbingers of spring, the robin and crocus, arrived ahead of the official spring date. In fact both appeared before all the snow melted. In a few days the early iris, both yellow and purple, were in full bloom.

Craig County’s climate is ideal for the hardy spring bulbs. Daffodils foliage thrived underneath the snow and already flower buds are present. Tulips and day lillies are putting out new growth and we see foliage of many of the minor group of spring bulbs in our garden.

The daffodil is perhaps my favorite of all the many flowers I grow. Even as a child I was impressed with their cheery welcome to warn weather. Did you ever pass an old house or where there had once been a home and wonder about who might have planted these gems? I did and still do!