It is Feb.17th and still officially winter but my garden is alive with colour since the botanical crocuses and the daffodils have joined the snowdrops and catkins. here are some pictures taken this morning.
I think it is the one called Caramel, Verdun. It is surrounded by blue bulbs like grape hyacinths which complement it nicely later on in the spring. Did not the snowdrops just love the winter this year? I have a huge drift of doubles which I will snap soon.
They're all looking good Marion . Your sempervivums don't seem to have suffered too much from the wet weather either, quite a few of mine have rotted but I always keep a good supply of "babies" in the potting shed over winter to replace any that have to be pulled out. They have always been a favourite of mine - probably because they are so easy to propagate!
Planting snowdrops today (asif I hadn't enough), I was joined by a bird that is new to my garden which a friend has said looks like a brambling. It is finch size but even friendlier than a robin, so i whispered to him if he stayed there till I got my camera I would bring him some seed. And he did. Here are the oictures i took.
I have seen a wonderful sight near dorchester ,5 cattle Egrets by a stream,just because I didn't have my camera.Lapwings to flying in the fields at Maiden Castle.
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St. Valentine's day is in the heart of winter and the crocus is St. Valentine's flower, so HAPPY ST. VALENTINE'S DAY everyone.
Thank you Marion, that is so pretty.
It is Feb.17th and still officially winter but my garden is alive with colour since the botanical crocuses and the daffodils have joined the snowdrops and catkins. here are some pictures taken this morning.
Heuceras are lovely in the winter.
I think it is the one called Caramel, Verdun. It is surrounded by blue bulbs like grape hyacinths which complement it nicely later on in the spring. Did not the snowdrops just love the winter this year? I have a huge drift of doubles which I will snap soon.
They're all looking good Marion
. Your sempervivums don't seem to have suffered too much from the wet weather either, quite a few of mine have rotted but I always keep a good supply of "babies" in the potting shed over winter to replace any that have to be pulled out. They have always been a favourite of mine - probably because they are so easy to propagate!
Planting snowdrops today (asif I hadn't enough), I was joined by a bird that is new to my garden which a friend has said looks like a brambling. It is finch size but even friendlier than a robin, so i whispered to him if he stayed there till I got my camera I would bring him some seed. And he did. Here are the oictures i took.
I have seen a wonderful sight near dorchester ,5 cattle Egrets by a stream,just because I didn't have my camera.Lapwings to flying in the fields at Maiden Castle.
Winter wonders, indeed, flowering rose.