Looking Forward
Sometimes the frost makes everything look really pretty: but sometimes, as today, it all just looks a bit - well - - grey and dead.
There are just a few green leaves - these are strawberry leaves, defying the frost:
But hey, rather to my amazement - looking up into an old climbing rose bush, there are some roses - admittedly a bit tired looking, but it is January after all.
And there are narcissi in flower, if only on the window sill:
But no, let's face facts, it's the middle of winter and here's a corner of my mother's garden looking very dead indeed.
I'll pull back and show you a bit more of my mother's garden, shall I?
Oh look, it's the same corner but I seem to have fast-forwarded to June.
Ahhh. THAT's better.
There are just a few green leaves - these are strawberry leaves, defying the frost:
But hey, rather to my amazement - looking up into an old climbing rose bush, there are some roses - admittedly a bit tired looking, but it is January after all.
And there are narcissi in flower, if only on the window sill:
But no, let's face facts, it's the middle of winter and here's a corner of my mother's garden looking very dead indeed.
I'll pull back and show you a bit more of my mother's garden, shall I?
Oh look, it's the same corner but I seem to have fast-forwarded to June.
Ahhh. THAT's better.
posted by Daphne at 5:44 pm
2 Comments:
Nothing can equal an English garden border - that's really lovely...
Here in (most of) NZ, because it's warmer we can't grow the herbaceous borders properly - there's not that cold then the sudden spring/summer blooming. So there is an upside to all your cold winters! And it kills all the nasty bugs and things too.
That's better indeed!
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