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Meanwhile, outside the gate…
Dodging Storm Ellen – and her successors
Sunday 23rd looks like being is the only calmish day in the coming week. On the other hand, there is another centimetre a day of rain to come between now and then, paths are already under standing water, and likely there is flooding on local roads as well.
So, alternatives to a live open afternoon on February 23rd:
- Virtual visit – a gallery post or two for Sunday.
- Wait for the heritage daffodils in March.
- For anyone with wellingtons and determination to make the trip over during the week 23rd – 28th, email a day ahead to frogswell@gmail.com
Earliest of the Slates
Quiet and subtle: low- growing, with down-facing blooms in a subtle grey-blue-purple, but immensely floriferous and reliable and the earliest of all the slates to flower.
It came from Adtian at Southease Hellebores in Sussex, who was breeding dark strains at the time.
One of of my first – and only – batch of bought-in hellebores. It soon became apparent that there was a wealth of forms and colours to be evaluated and worked on, among ypung plants and established clumps, and that introducing more potential breeding material would just be a distraction.
Greeting the New Year
In full flower on Jan 1st, a reliably early yellow of unknown lineage that came with the garden.
The outward facing blooms show off striking dark maroon centres.
It’s known prosaically as W[ood] E[dge] 9. In those early days the flowering clumps were few enough to have ndividual database entries.
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