Happy first day of spring! Thousands of Joanne d’Arc Dutch Crocus are blooming in the lawn on Evening Island along with many other plants you wouldn’t normally see bloom at this time. This cultivar was hybridized in the mid-1920s by W.J. Eldering, an early Dutch pioneer in the creation of garden-adapted cultivars. Learn about this plant and more on our weekly bloom highlight page. http://www.chicagobotanic.org/inbloom/highlight.php