Unusual Zaluzianskya and Night Phlox
Rhodohypoxis for Massed Flowers
<h4>You're browser does not support iFrames - here is an exerpt of the content</h4> <a href="http://snappycrocsgarden.blogspot.com/2010/01/snowdrops-and-old-friends.html">Click here to read the article in full</a> <p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LUHJALsslac/S1Sz3PjDZvI/AAAAAAAAGzU/3A_qDfjtkTw/s1600-h/2010_0116mon0014+%28Medium%29.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LUHJALsslac/S1Sz3PjDZvI/AAAAAAAAGzU/3A_qDfjtkTw/s320/2010_0116mon0014+%28Medium%29.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428161212536022770" border="0" /></a> I am back from <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><a title="Cheltenham" href="http://gardenersvoice.com/category/cheltenham/">Cheltenham</a></span> now, after a weekend spent with Mum. This delightful Snowdrop opened its first flower on Saturday. I love the purity of the white petals, and the intricate markings of the lime green inner part of the flower. These are harbingers of Spring, pushing up through the snow and soil. They were brought from Turkey in the 17<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">th</span> century but have been widely naturalised around Britain. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Febuary</span> is meant to be the month to see Snowdrop carpets in several public gardens like <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Painswicks</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Roccocco</span> gardens.<br /> I had to kneel down on the grass to get the photo. I guess the small bulbs would be great in a container, or trough so you can see them at eye level.</p> <p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LUHJALsslac/S1SzuR0eXtI/AAAAAAAAGzM/VUR3G9WuqI4/s1600-h/2010_0116mon0007+%28Medium%29.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LUHJALsslac/S1SzuR0eXtI/AAAAAAAAGzM/VUR3G9WuqI4/s320/2010_0116mon0007+%28Medium%29.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428161058527141586" border="0" /></a> It was overcast on the first day, and the sun was shining through the hazy sky. I think it made Mums garden look ethereal, and moody.<br /> I saw a Robin today in her tree next to the tool shed. All my favourite parts of the garden were still there.<br /> A large <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Camelia</span> bush adorned with pink flower buds, the climbing Rose that hangs over the brickwork and kitchen window. The Hebe bush that is bigger than me.<br /> The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Campanula</span> had spread like wildfire around the soil under the Kitchen window. I rubbed the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Santolina</span> (we call it Cotton Lavender) and the scent took me back ten years…<br /> There were Crocuses and <a title="Daffodils" href="http://gardenersvoice.com/category/daffodils/">Daffodils</a> pushing their way up through the soil. All the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Cheltenham</span> snow had melted away before I came back.<br /> I spent the weekend shopping in town, and at the Racecourses Car boot sale yesterday. I found a Hyacinth bulb with the dutch type glass jar that I blogged about before in a Charity shop.<br /> I bought a one pound box of Jalapeno <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Chilli</span> seeds ready for March sowing (With a heated <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">propagator</span> I have not bought yet).<br /> Mum’s famous pot of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Sempervivum’s</span> (House Leeks) are growing on strong. They have been growing in there pot for twenty years. They grow lots of Baby <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">House leeks</span> and drop them over the edge of the pot. I have five baby plants ready to start my own eternal <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">House leek</span> pot.<br /> The brief visit to my Mum’s garden has fired me up ready for the spring as yet <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">unsprung</span>..<br /> Its back to work for me tomorrow. 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