The snowdrops were underneath the snow, patiently waiting for the space and light to show themselves.
January has been a tiresome month here, no real problems but between us we've dealt with a few little irritations of life, vertigo, snow and ice, flu, broken laptop, broken phone etc so I am happy to bid farewell to the first month of the year and look at February as a fresh start.
The garden and the countryside is slowly waking and there are leaves of celandines, clumps of fern-like cow parsley and the first shoots of "Lords and Ladies" appearing in the verges. February seems a good time for new beginnings.
Happy February to everyone.
4 comments:
those snowdrops are gorgeous, do they have a scent?
No, there isn't any real scent but then I only have a few. When I saw large numbers of snowdrops last year I don't remember much of a scent, certainly not like daffodils or bluebells.
I am determined to buy bulbs for snowdrops this year and plant them. I remember them from my childhood and they were such a lovely harbinger of spring. I want my children to know them too.
Heather,
I bought mine "in the green", that is when they have finished flowering but the leaves haven't died down. I understand that they get established in the first spring ready to flower the next and that planting the dry bulbs is less successful.
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