Garden Gallery 2021

Papi Jo · 11 February

Here is the (slightly overdue) sequel to Garden Gallery 2020. I expect that Year 2020 was so weird in many ways that I had not yet realized we were well into February 2021, until @fidgetbones reminder.

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fidgetbones · 12 February

I have to say I wish we could have a total reset and the last year has just been a bad dream, however, snow is melting and Spring will soon be here.

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Four years from seed to flowering size plant, but what a beauty.

Songbird-1 · 12 February

@fidgetbones, perhaps we'll all do a " Bobby Ewing" and be found in the shower? It was all a dream.....😱🥴

fidgetbones · 12 February

I've spent a lot of time lounging in the bath, hairpack on head, reading a kindle. It's either that or housework, and I'm sick to death of housework.

B3 · 13 February

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.”

― Quentin Crisp

Cambridgerose12 · 13 February

Here's one I photographed earlier (it's now frozen solid and flattened)...

Papi Jo · 13 February

@Cambridgerose12 Interesting slate/blue colour! Don't worry about its current frozen state, it should come back after the frost is over. See for example my Helleborus 'Pink Frost' back in 2018:

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H. Pink Frost' on 28 February 2018 after several nights at -5° C and days at just 0° C

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March 1st under snow at -1° C

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On March 2nd at 5° C, in great shape

Cambridgerose12 · 13 February

@Papi Jo , yes, they seem to do that--must be a protective mechanism or something! I love these near-blue ones. I have a variety in my front garden that is paler, almost lavender in colour, with spots.