Two happy things today. The first is that there really are blooms in the garden and second, it is a beautifully sunny day here on the South coast of England. This makes writing a post for Garden Bloggers Bloom day a bit of a treat; I haven’t contributed to this monthly meme hosted by Carol of May Dreams Garden blog for a while.
I had to take my iPad out to take photographs because my laptop has died making my camera pointless as I won’t be able to transfer photos using a memory card. Also I am writing this post on the iPad and anyone trying to write using the WordPress app will know how frustrating it can be. The iPad actually takes some excellent quality photos so not being able to use my big camera is ok.
Anyway, here goes!
Hellebores
Always lovely to see this time of the year. A bog standard variety and I always promise myself to buy new ones but never get around to it.
Snowdrops
Like the hellebores, these are a common garden variety but come up every year and are pretty.
Primroses
There are only a few, the others are still to flower but there is plenty of time.
Pieris ‘Forest Flame
A shrub that is guaranteed to have something worth photographing at anytime of the year.
Iris ‘Gordon‘
Regular readers will probably be fed up with seeing these by now. This early pot is almost over now, but there are some in the other pots that are just about to come out, so more to photograph.
Hydrangea
Can I get away with dried flowers? I think so!
Japanese Amenome
Last month I showed my Japanese Anemone which was flowering. Lo and behold it is still flowering, despite the snow and ice. Poor confused little plant.
Skimmia
Alright, I know that strictly speaking berries are not blooms but they are colourful and nice to include. I get confused with Skimmia, There is a large shrub in the front garden covered in red berries all year round, and in the summer it also produces tiny white flowers. In the back garden I have one that produces clusters of tiny dark berries in the winter. Both, apparently, are Skimmia Japonica. I read the first one is a female plant and the second one is a male. Can anyone shed any further light?
Narcissi ‘Paperwhite’
My final photo for this GBBD post is a pot of narcissi bulbs that I forgot I had and despite having no soil and being left outside, I unearthed them today and they are in flower. You can’t get the better of nature can you!
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