Garden News: promises

[callmemadam]

After another miserable dark morning yesterday, the afternoon was miraculously sunny and I was able to get outside. Much colder today with a big frost this morning but bright all day. This is wonderful. So over the weekend I’ve cut off all the hellebore leaves and cut down the huge ferns under the hedge. Part of their top growth stays evergreen and upright and part turns into a black, slimy, floppy mess. It’s daunting when you begin snipping but once you can see the crown the work gets easier. Why bother? Well it’s unsightly but, more importantly, smothering. Because underneath are



snowdrop snouts. Even some daffodils are starting to show. No doubt we’re in for a great deal more bad weather but here are the promises of spring, like this primrose.



Chewed up and ragged but determined to flower with hope against the odds. Goodness, I’m turning into Gladys Taber!

Comments

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Absolutely!

[ramblingfancy.livejournal.com]

But you lack the cocker spaniels :)

[ooxc.livejournal.com]

Worryingly, I've had daffodil snouts since the snow began to melt on Christmas Eve.
Hoe do you manage high cutting? I bought a thing o' purpose in the autumn, but it terrifies me - a saw arm with strings hanging down, and I doubt I'll ever dare use it

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Hee! Also the nerve to write e.g. "Who could look at this brave little primrose and not believe that there is hope for the world?"
Perhaps I could make my fortune yet.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Everything I can do, I do myself. What I can't, I pay a man to do. Simples!

I do have a much safer-seeming piece of equipment than yours: a clipper on the end of a rigid piece of metal, with a trigger at the user end. Completely safe but I can't think what it's called.

[ooxc.livejournal.com]

Your garden is probably bigger than mine - i can't find any oner willing to do such a small (in their eyes) job That does sound safer than mine

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

What a lovely thought, that spring may yet come! It seems a long way away yet, but it's a happy thing to see signs...

My primroses are very unhappy indeed at the moment, after all the snow. I'm hoping that they'll make it!

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

They're tough!

[oddny.livejournal.com]

I just wish it would stop raining long enough to let me finish anything in the garden. Very heartening to see the green shoots though, even if it does induce Gladys Taber moments :-)

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Two days respite and today back to dark miserable weather with added wind. Just have to wait for the next gardening window.

[gghost.livejournal.com]

Never having heard of her, I just googled Gladys Taber ... what a lot of lovely-sounding books!

[(Anonymous)]

Four months, yes four months till such a sight appears around here.
Nan

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

I've just read my first book by her and it was indeed 'a lovely book'.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

But then you seem to catch up and get everything at once!