I long for some bright days -- this winter seems to have lasted so long and been so cold, but each time I look in the garden I find more and more flowers open and bravely facing the cold.
Today I was delighted to find mauve, yellow and white crocuses and heliborus feotidus or stinking helibore as it is commonly known. It has green stems, leaves and flowers and as the flowers open fully the bottom edge of the petals becomes edged with red. There are also mauve and white violets; aconites; daffodils in bud; chinodoxia or glory of the snow; the wonderfully perfumed vibernum bodnantense; and cascading down a bank, a veronica with tiny deep blue flowers and masses of buds showing promise of much to come.
Alas no sign of my beloved primroses yet.
The rhododendrons, azalias and magnolias are all heavy with bud and promise of much future enjoyment, together with the rosettes of foxglove leaves standing all around the garden, wherever their seeds happened to fall.
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