Earlier this week my friend Esther invited me to go to Munson Park to look for her favourite first sign of a Winnipeg spring.
It was a gorgeous sunny day and it had been a while since I'd been to Munson Park which is located along the Assiniboine River on land that once belonged to the Richardson family.
Kathleen Richardson gifted it to the city of Winnipeg for a park after her family's home on the property had been torn down. The house originally belonged to a lawyer named John Henry Munson, hence the park's name.
Once we'd entered the park it didn't take long to spot delicate blue flowers poking their lovely heads out of the ground.
"I call them Blue Stars or Blue Confetti," my friend said and indeed they did look like tiny pieces of confetti peppering the newly greening grass and celebrating the warmth of spring.
Blue Star seemed a perfect name too. Bees were buzzing around the six-petalled flowers and I could see tiny buds for more blue stars shooting up out of the dry brown leaves covering the ground.
Later my plant app informed me the flower's official name was the Siberian Squill or the Scilla Siberica but I liked Blue Star or Blue Confetti much better.
If you are waiting for confirmation that spring has arrived in Winnipeg go to Munson Park and check out the blue confetti.
It's everywhere!
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