Spring is Here: Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day February 15, 2010
What I find most interesting about the garden this month is how beat up all the plants are, especially the flowers, which is very much how I feel after braving winter’s cold days and long nights. The blooms, like me, have clearly struggled to make it through the colder months but regardless have pushed on to respond to the balmy weather and send out colourful, fragrant flowers even if they have a few chewed edges and some dirt on them. These early spring flowers are so different than in summer, who stand tall and strong in the warm sun and look and feel their very best. The spring blooms look just as vibrant as those in summer but it’s a found energy, one that has been regenerating for a few months and then with all the strength one can muster, has shot up to brave a new season. A beginning of a new year. A new set of challenges. A new set of opportunities. Spring is here.
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- Beautiful white Hellebore
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- Teeny white Viola
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- Snowdrops
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- Purple Cape Cauliflower
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- Dark pink Hellebore
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- Wintergreen
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- Periwinkle blooms are a bit beat up
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- Pink Bergenia bloom
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- The first Narcissus
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- Purple Crocus and Sedum
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- Christmas Rose Hellebore STILL NOT BLOOMING!
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- Bergenia blooms with red stem
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- It’s hard to get a photo of the crocuses WITHOUT a bee.
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- Winterfurst Savoy Cabbage mid February
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- the Heather is still blooming
Tags: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
February 16 2010 09:08 am | Flowers and Gardening and Photography
Kat on 16 Feb 2010 at 6:26 pm #
So many beautiful flowers and it’s the cauliflower I find most amazing. What a gorgeous shade of purple.
Dan on 17 Feb 2010 at 2:28 pm #
Just beautiful, especially the purple cauliflower.
Stevie on 17 Feb 2010 at 11:12 pm #
Thanks, I’m pretty attached to that cauliflower now because I have officially been growing the 4 plants I have in the front garden for a year! I think they didn’t get enough sun thus the delay. But these are supposed to be easier to grow than white because they don’t need blanching. Hopefully they taste as good as they look.
Julia on 12 Apr 2010 at 10:09 am #
What about pests?
Stevie on 14 Apr 2010 at 9:49 am #
Hi Julia, that’s a great question and one that I was hoping to write about one of these days. With the warm weather we had over winter, many of the tender plants survived, and hardy ones thrived – but the same goes for pests. I’m seeing quite a lot of pest damage around and I’m a bit concerned for the summer. perhaps the beneficials also survived in record numbers though! Circle of life :)