The Parsley Patch

First roses of the season have bloomed and I quickly grabbed them and brought them inside to brighten up these dreary rainy days This is Rainbow Sorbet, a floribunda. It does seem to me to be showing more of a leaning towards being a hybrid tea with very large single blooms. This is its first season, so we shall see it becomes more multi-flowered as time goes by. Lovely glowing colors, but a very light fragrance that is only detectable at certain times.

The scent of spring is in the air as the blue Festival Hyacinths begin to bloom. In many respects, I like them better than regular full hyacinths. They are multistemmed and do truly seem to multiply from year to year.

Finally after a long hard winter, signs of spring are popping up and the snowdrops are in bloom! What a delight to go outside and find these wonderful little flowers brightening up the garden as it begins to wake from winter slumber.

I was so hoping to go outside yesterday and find the witch hazel to be blooming, but I was hard pressed to even find sight of a bud this year. Perhaps I hacked it back to much last year? Or perhaps this incredibly cold and snowy winter has delayed it’s bloom. So alas, all that is blooming is my cyclamen by the window.

I found this incredibly large and gorgeous ruffled cyclamen at the garden center while foraging for bird seed, which was on short supply everywhere. It was the only one with this wonderfully vibrant violet highlighting amongst dozens of smaller and paler-colored plants.

With a brand new Canon G12 camera in hand, I wanted to rush outside and snap a few pictures for my first entry in May Dreams Gardens’ Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day where garden bloggers band together and post what’s blooming in their gardens each month. Winter had other plans and decided to lay down an unexpected blanket of white snow in the morning, but that did not deter me.