February Bloomday, 2015

I’m late, I’m late, for a very important date! As you may know yesterday, February 15th, was Garden Bloggers Bloomday…however since I am still in a spin from 3 days in Seattle, 2 spent at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show, and barely arrived home in time to get some sleep and get up and head to the HPSO talk (Shirley Watts) on Sunday, I didn’t get a chance to post. Still, I can’t break my streak of Bloomday posts going back to April of 2009! Especially when we’re experiencing very spring-like weather here in the Pacific Northwest…

Above is Acacia baileyana 'Purpurea' as seen through the plastic walls of our “greenhouse,” here’s how it looks when you’re inside (it’s not reliably hardy in my USDA Zone so lives in a container)…

I was feeling terribly indecisive so you get 3 images of Euphorbia rigida…

And 2 of Euphorbia 'Ascot Rainbow'…which isn’t even quite blooming yet but is doing its pre-bloom nod…

Edgeworthia chrysantha 'Nanjing Gold'

There are finally enough flowers on this plant that the fragrance is powerful.

The ants like it too.

This is Edgeworthia chrysantha ‘Akebono’…

Which is always a little behind 'Nanjing Gold'– so I wasn’t worried until I noticed some of the buds are doing this…augh!

Arctostaphylos x 'Austin Griffiths'

Arctostaphylos densiflora ‘Sentinel’

And the hellebores, there must be blooming hellebores in the garden in February. Helleborus argutifolius…

Helleborus foetidus

Helleborus x ballardiae Pink Frost

And Helleborus x hybridus 'Jade Tiger'

I’ll close with the promising buds on my recently acquired (in January) Ludisia discolor, something to look forward to next month!

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