'It was the middle of January now, a fine cold Wednesday morning. Ellen, who had half an hour off before serving lunch, came out of the porch in her old coat, the belt hanging, to cut sprigs of winter jasmine for the tables. Jasmine was all there was at present; soon there would be winter aconites and snowdrops, floods of gold and white under the trees; then daffodils, then primroses and violets...' Dorothy Whipple Someone at a distance
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How is your garden? I miss pottering in it, but look forward to spring and the new life, but bought the first bunch of daffodils at the weekend.
I have some half hearted winter flowering Jasmine, it's yellow, and very cheery it is too. I'm browsing the seed catalogues to escape the cold and damp, and have decided to sow wild flower seeds come the spring, as well as the usual salads and veg...planning gets me through these short days.
ReplyDeleteLilac - Looking forward to reading more about your wild flowers. One day soon it will be lighter..,
DeleteI, sadly, don't have a garden, but many of my friends are having trouble with theirs because we just had a week of freezing temps and then a week of rain - not good for our desert plants.
ReplyDeleteWinter jasmine is so beautiful!
Anbolyn - For once our weather sounds slightly similar. We had snow last week & this week rain. At least our plants are used to the rain!
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ReplyDeleteMud! So. Very. Much. Mud! That's what my garden currently looks like but I did spot the beginnings of snowdrops under the apple tree today. It was a very heartening sight.
ReplyDeleteTonia - oh how wonderful a snowdrop under an apple tree. I shall have to wait until the weekend to see if any are under our tree, I do hope see.
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