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Monday, March 7, 2011

RUBY TUESDAY - THIS LOVELY CUTTING OF A HELLEBORUS ORIENTALIS WAS RECENTLY SEEN

GROWING UP THROUGH THE SNOW IN A WASHINGTON DC TOWN HOUSE GARDEN...


Celebrating International Women's Day, March 8, 2011


WHOSE  PURPLY RED FLOWERS USUALLY WELCOME SPRING;  IT WAS BROUGHT T0 ME TWO WEEKS AGO BY A FRIEND (WHEN THE TEMPERATURE WAS 20 DEGREES), AND IS STILL SURVIVING (with three accompanying buds shrouded by its leaves), despite the fact that, to last indoors, the cutting was not plunged into nearly boiling water!  A tip that Vita Sackville West of Sissinghurst Garden fame, was so informed by a reader!  Vita was born on March 9, 1892.  She died June 2, 1962.  FOR MORE ABOUT THIS WONDERFUL GARDEN IN ENGLAND'S KENT    READ:        
                          SISSINGHURST, PORTRAIT OF A GARDEN, BY JANE BROWN
                                                         (Weidenfeld and Nicolson)



5 comments:

  1. I love the slightly rusty colour of the flower and I think the glimpse of glass container adds to the shot. 20 degrees doesn't sound too cold for a plant though! It's only 25 here today and I'm quite warm.

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  2. The hellebore has lasted extremely well. I keep meaning to look at ours and then forgetting. The garden is so muddy that I'm not encouraged to walk over what's left of the grass.

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  3. What a beautiful bloom. I should try to plant some at the Jarvis House Garden. The Winter Jasmine should be out soon, and the Snowdrops are everywhere here.

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  4. Wow that has lasted a long time...I would love to see it in bloom

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  5. Lovely! I like the very top of the glass vase as well.
    I would think boiling water would do just the opposite and kill it. I don't however have a green thumb. :)

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