Garden Gallery 2021

Papi Jo

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.

fidgetbones

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

fidgetbones

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

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

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

Papi Jo

@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:

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

March 1st under snow at -1° C

On March 2nd at 5° C, in great shape

Cambridgerose12

@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. 

Papi Jo

Today's pics of some plants striving against the snow in the garden.

Erica carnea bravely attempts a breakthrough...

Erica x darleyensis ‘Silberschmelze’ under the snow. White on white is fine.

Snow and frost got the better of the pretty pink flowers of my camellia 'Buttons & Bows'.

D0rdogne_Damsel

Late afternoon walk around the garden a bit of sunshine. So good to feel spring in the air.

Papi Jo

Wot? No snow in Saint Yrieix La Perche? and Spring is in the air? That's not fair.

Lovely camellia, by the way.

Busy-Lizzie

I haven't posted on Garden Gallery for a while because I was selling my house in France with its big, beautiful garden. I had to downsize house and garden and live nearer civilisation. It was very isolated, expensive to maintain and had phone and Internet problems. Most of the time I couldn't see photos here because of the poor Internet. It was lovely when I was young with family, no longer young.

Here is my old garden.










This is my new garden, hardly a garden yet, mostly grass, but I have plans.



I weeded and planted this bed this afternoon. It's "after" first, then "before", they turned out the wrong way round!