blossoming wilderness

Le cerisier en fleur n'éclate bien de blancheur irréelle que dans le jour gris.

Only on a grey day does the blossoming cherry tree burst into unreal whiteness.

Roger Munier

 

glory of the snow

 

I planted these small bulbs for the first time!  The flowers look like tiny hyacinth, but they are not fragrant.

Chionodoxa luciliae, commonly called glory-of-the-snow, is a bulbous perennial that is native to mountainsides in western Turkey.

it has started!

helleborus

 

 

for the first time this spring - a flower i have long dreamt of,  

because it has such an irresistible name...

progress on the colour front