Perennials – Page 2 – Ellis Hollow

Spring, quickly

I missed a month of spring in the week or so I was working close to 24/7 on the titan arum blooming at work. But I did have a few minutes to shoot some pix as the early spring bloomers rushed by with the unseasonably warm weather.

Crocus

Hellebore

Iris reticulata

Iris histrioides ‘Katharine Hodgkin’ (thanks Lynn!)

Don’t know how this pulmonaria hitched a ride into the garden. Ugly foliage but great flowers.

Pussy willows were in their prime one of the few days I was home early enough to take pix.

January flowers

This is the closest I’ve every come to having real bloom pictures in January. With highs around 50F later this week, I expect I may actually have full blooms. Having a Zone 7 winter does have an upside. In a ‘normal’ winter, I’d expect this kind of display about a month from now.

Hellebores

Eranthis

Snowdrop

Veggie garden — way too green for January.

More snowdrops.

More bulbs emerging.

Snowcapped

A few pix I shot last weekend for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, but never found time to get online.

Snowcapped monarda.

Moonscape.

Alternative take of snowcapped monarda from earlier in the morning.

New Year’s pix

Winter is finally supposed to hit tonight. (Low’s ~10F, 6 to 10 inches of snow, high ~15F tomorrow.) But New Year’s was sunny and pushing 50F. I even harvested a little lettuce.