Emi, these plants really are opportunistic bloomers, and will bloom when conditions are favorable. My own Christmas cacti tend to have just one long bloom window from late December through early March, but I've read reports of these plants blooming three times a year. There is also the less likely chance that it is a stress-bloom, when the plant "senses" that it is about to die, and thus throws blooms out in a last ditch effort to produce seed and reproduce itself. But if you've been growing these plants for many years, you would recognize such a thing. Josh

Thanks everybody!! Yes, fake Arctic Snow is small. I googled both Gumdrop and Ethel Smith, and it does look very much alike s. Ethel Smith!! Several pictures on the internet were identical, and AHS description matches, though mine don't look quite like Edward's flowers. Pink noid is a division of the first one which started real early, probably not as established yet.

All three of your seedlings look great! The eye on the first one looks very blue in that second photo. Congrats! Debra

Late daffodils, tulips, alliums, spiderwort, flowering quince will be in bloom then if we have a cool spring. Foxgloves, irises, some lilies, spiderwort, glads, calla lilies, will be in bloom with a normal to warm spring. That's the trouble with growing in the ground for a wedding; you can't predict whether the weather will cooperate for your date. And then a late minute rain storm could take out all of your flower petals. You might be better off growing annuals in pots that you then place around the site with a choice of decoration to cover the pots from sinking the pots into the ground to mulch around them in an assortment of colors to putting them on risers and draping colored sheets around them. If you think annuals and forced bulbs in pots, the sky is the limit from daffs, tulips, begonia, calendula, zinnias, marigolds, allysum, baby's breath, statice, Dill for greenery. You can always start under lights what wouldn't bloom ordinarily in time and wintersow the rest. The pots also give you flexibility for arranging the site too.