Well it certainly another Monday but no longer as in working years could it be described as manic. The song lyrics no longer ring true :
" It's just another manic Monday
I wish it was Sunday
'Cause that's my fun day
My "I don't have to run day"
It's just another manic Monday"
- sung by 'The Bangles'.
Now Monday is very much a fun day as we're invited to share our floral and foliage gatherings with fellow flower lovers. The year is still very much in it's infancy but there are definite signs of the lengthening days and of growth in the garden. In my vase this week are :
- Sarcoccoca - I like the delicate white flowers of this shrub as well as its scent. Here I grow a couple of varieties but neither live up to its common name of Christmas box, as they don't do much in the way of flower until the end of January. The flowers on this unknown variety seem to be sparser than usual this year and some of the foliage is yellowing. It lives in a big pot by the front door with a hardy cyclamen and a fern that has probably got too big over the years. Time I think for feeding and perhaps drastic action as far as the fern is concerned.
- A couple of fronds from a hardy fern, not the one already mentioned but another pot grown one. It's an evergreen fern by the name of polystichum polyblepharum or perhaps more easily remembered by it's common name of Japanese lace fern.
- Finally a few flowers from 'Trumps' one of my favourite special snowdrops. This one is easily recognisable and bulks up at an incredible speed. If only it could be remamed! Here is it in the garden just a few days ago :
It looks as if it's going to be a relatively warm and sunny day here, with the temperature nudging into double figures. I hope to have a potter about in the garden later on and see what's happening out there.
Wonderful Sarcocca, scent of which I am channeling and lovely snowdrops. how on earth did they get that name?!!
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That's curious, as I don't think my sarcococca is flowering as well this year either, or not yet at least. And what a great clump of Trumps you have - hopefully, one of these days they won't conjure up the same sort of thoughts and images as of late 🤞Both make for a lovely little vase, along with your snippets of fern, in such a dinky little green vase too
ReplyDeleteOh, so pretty! The combinations of foliage and flowers, and the vase, are simply lovely. <3
ReplyDeleteI'd love to have a Sarcoccca shrub in my own garden for the scent alone! You're right that those snowdrops are urgently in need of a new name - an association with any member of that family, least of all the current patriarch, besmirches the beauty and purity of those blooms.
ReplyDeleteOoh, double figures? Wonderful! Hope you could have some garden time yesterday Anna. It seems to have been hovering around zero here forever now, with an occasional jump to 3 or 4°C. The little white flowers of the Sarcococca really are nice, and the fragrance must be a delight next to your front door. The green on Trumps stands out so well, and the green and white in your vase is overall so refreshing and very cheerful to my winter-weary eyes!
ReplyDeleteThis is so lovely, Anna. The shape and color of the vase itself really are perfect for the contents.
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