A West Chicago garden progressional bloom (late winter through late spring:

West Chicago landscapers choice here. Easy to establish, first to bloom!

Non native, but a beaut. Blooms in the dead of a West Chicago winter!

The earliest of native blooms in the Oak Brook, Hinsdale shade garden

A woodland of West Chicago Il

An eye-catching flower, blooming in late May

Mid April in the West Chicago wildflower woodland garden, full on natives, and daffodil/.