Lazy Poet’s Winter Garden

Hellebore 2

Hellebore, my friend,

Tilting up your Winter smile.

Stay with me, till Spring?

Hellebore

Use your imagination, said Jude.  I really didn’t need to.  They were just waiting for me to notice them, so I could enter the  Winter Garden challenge this week.  My Lazy Poet friend Gilly found some too.  We now have a chorus of hellebore!

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  1. These are lovely photos. I was given a hellebore in a pot as an indoor plant just before Christmas and it seemed to be doing well at first, but now it is looking a little sad, so I have put it outside to take its chance and if it survives it will be going into the ground to flower, hopefully, next Christmas.

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    1. I’ve never come across them as an indoor plant, I must admit. Ours keep coming back year on year. They were uprooted and split only a couple of months ago because we had some garden shenanigans with new fences. They don’t seem to have objected at all 🙂

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  11. I so love hellabores, Jo, and especially the freckly ones. Not too far away from us is Ashwoods nursery that holds the national collection. To visit when all are blooming is to induce feelings of almost insuperable greed. I am only reined in by the lack of suitable garden around my house. I do have one or two or three though 🙂

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  15. Now that’s a pleasant surprise, I was expecting crimson coloured cyclamen (there has to be a haiku in that somehow), but I shall happily accept your hellebore, since mine shows absolutely no sign of flowering this year 😦
    (and I see you have been playing again, very pretty frosty window 😀 )

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    1. The cyclamen photos didn’t turn out so well and I knew you had a dearth of hellebore. Couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw Gilly’s post this morning. I shouted Snap! loud enough to wake the street 🙂 I was going for a snowy effect. If I’d waited a little longer I could have had the real thing! Chaos on the roads up here this morning but it’s gone again now.
      If you read this in time to watch The One Show I believe they’re featuring the sea glass project this evening. I imagine in conjunction with Lumiere showing in London this weekend.

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  17. Here in Italy they are called “bucaneve”( which means that they make a hole in the snow!) and it’s so pleasant to see them here and there during a snowfall ….
    Your photos are particularly poetic and delicate, but I see no snow all around!

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    1. We call them Winter or Lenten roses but I’d forgotten. 🙂 The snow is just around the corner! I’m heading for Newcastle today and I’m told it’s snowing there 😦

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  19. You have brightened up the day for the hellebore and all of us with the lovely photos and the poem, Jo! 🙂 I’m partial to this flower, but not so to your artistic work. 🙂

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    1. It’s such a pretty thing, isn’t it, Dina? 🙂 I often use the flower heads to float in a glass bowl, but I still have flowers from my Christmas visitors. Thanks a lot 🙂 Hope you’re having a happy week!

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