Winter Gardens
Corkscrew Hazelnut
We don’t normally experience abundant snow, but have had a deluge of rain for the last few days. At the first sign of a break in the clouds, Agathe and Opal dashed outside for some fresh air…they found some beautiful things have been going on in the garden despite the 30 mm of rain in the last 24 hours…they found Hazels beginning to produce leaf buds and catkins!
White Heather
…a drift of snowy heather blooming valiantly…
Red Berries
…spikes of gorgeous red Cotoneaster berries…
Fennel
…the last of the fennel umbels…
Snowdrops
…and the first of the snowdrops!
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Perfect light for Opal and Agathe’s wood. They are lovely girls.
It is a very nice day by our standards – there is a fog bank sitting right above our heads, but some nice light coming off the water…
In our vicinity, we would heartily concur that your winters are very minimal…blooming snowdrops!!!! unheard of. Enjoy your lovely flora and fauna in your part of the world little Hittys! For those of us experiencing deep arctic-type weather, it’s nice to see such lovelies out there elsewhere in the world.
We have minimum snow, but maximum grey, which is its own kind of difficult weather. Sometimes the dismal days are thoroughly dark, dreary and depressing. We try and emulate the plants around here which just get on with their cycles of existence and take heart in a little bud here and a little flower there!
Soooooooooooooo beautiful…………
Thank you! It is beautiful around here! And I am grateful for the rain too, without which this part of the world would be much less lush and verdant…
ahh lovely photos. We have no snow or ice but instead temps so bitter we are not venturing out except to do chores! Nothing budding or blooming here so your garden is quite a welcome visit for us. Thank you to Opal and Agathe for bravely venturing forth and to their photographer for tagging along!
Br-r-r I hope you are keeping warm. Opal and Agathe are glad of their cat hoodies, which are almost as good as having real fur! We are glad it stopped raining for a bit! Lately it has been raining too hard to take the girls out in it, with flooded roads caused by backed up storm drains and mud wallows on the walk home from work.
Our winters are never too cold, so it is nice to see the girls all dressed up in winter clothes and enjoying the outdoors.
We do enjoy our weather when it isn’t completely liquid! Opal and Agathe do seem to be getting out and about more often than some of the Hittys at the moment.
Perhaps those wonderful hooded sweaters keep their pegs warmer than some of the other Hitty winter clothes?
16 degrees this morning upon rising! The Wiregrass Hitties are cold! But it cheers them, as always, to take a peek into OHG’s (Other Hittys’ Gardens) and see what’s coming up, blossoming or otherwise growing. Lovely garden-lovely photos.
Dear me – that sounds cold in degrees F! I hope the Hittys and humans are drinking warming fluids and snuggling into their warmest wraps!