valleylynn said:Ron, thank you so much for posting the beginning of bloom. They are beautiful. I wonder if this is C. persicum?
What are your winters like?
I beleave so, here some information on a local site (you can use google translate to translate to English)
https://www.wildflowers.co.il/...
Average winter temperature is about 50-55F, but it can go sometimes at night almost to freezing (specially in mountains over 2000 feet, were Jerusalem is located). Here snow is a very rare event (only in ski resort in Hermon we have stable snow for about 3-4 month), in winter it is only a lot of rain and graupel. If we have s snow, and it can hold on the ground after a night for more that few inches, everything is stopped, till snow is cleared from the roads.