Wednesday, 24 December 2014

Pink Christmas

It may be Christmas Eve, but the pinks are still flowering.  A nice little posy of them picked today for the Christmas table; the progeny of cuttings taken from a stem in a bunch of supermarket flowers some years ago.  The buds are pink, but the flowers open white with a deep pink base.  Unseasonal, but welcome.

The weather is still windy and mostly mild, although tomorrow is to be clear and colder.  Still nothing really cold in the forecast - just as well, as I haven't got round to putting up the greenhouse bubblewrap yet.  Most of the tulips are now planted.  I'm taking comfort from the memory of the winter a few years ago when the ground (and bags of compost) were too frozen to plant anything until January; the tulips still came up all the same.  Here's to a floriferous 2015!

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