Sometimes the flowers stop me in my tracks. Just look at this tutu, quivery with the weight of rain.
Pom-pom meets fireworks. I love the greeny-cream petals specked with purple.
This one's no show off, just a classic beauty. I think these are all hellebores -- sometimes called Christmas roses or Lenten roses, depending on what hemisphere you're in. They flower in winter, and don't mind the cold, wet or shade. So if it does snow over the next few days, they won't mind one bit.
The forecast is for snow. It seems impossible, with fifteen degrees outside, and the plants all convinced spring well underway.
The blueberries are all budded up and starting to flower. I suspect they'll be fine if it snows. They are Canadian afterall. (Well, I think of them as Canadian -- they grow like weeds in Canada.)
This is Pieris, flowers looking very lily-of-the-valley -- which I think might be its common name -- lily of the valley bush, or shrub.
Right up the back between my garden and Margaret's is the wild, fragrant jasmine hedge and a daphne with nice fat flowers, both wearing a bit too much perfume today. And both tough enough to cope with a cold snap and a coating of snow, should one arrive. I'm kind of hoping it does. There's something very special about a snowfall in the garden, and the hush that comes with it.
The snow will be fine it is the extreme southerlies that have me worried at my place. Trying to ward of leaf burn with pea straw. One day those hellebores will be all mixed through the hedge and there will be little dirt and I hope that between their extremes will be loads of different babies
ReplyDeleteBlueberries! How exciting. Well the snow did indeed occur - hopefully all those beautiful full-skirted flowers kept their petals intact.
ReplyDeleteI love hellebores - they're so unusual but very shy - always got that demure looking down look.
ReplyDeleteWe survived! The only casualties were a few flowers and leaves that got pummeled in the hail, otherwise it's all systems go for a spring leaf-up.
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