During the hot and very dry summer it was impossible to imagine that well ahead of time late winter or early spring flowers might start making an early apperance.
Just after lunch today, I popped out in the wet windy weather to see what had survived the recent few days.
Lamium maculatum 'White Nancy' and feathery greenery from the Corydalis ochroleuca are there to provide a green foil to the snowdrops, Cyclamen coum, and Jasminum nudiflorum. This vase could very easily be built up in January or February but by then the Aster Monch would be missing. I believe this snowdrop to be Galanthus Natalie Garton: it is flowering in the same place as the named one was planted. The drops are quite large on this snowdrop but had not flowered this early in previous years.
My very first entry for IAVOM was probably in 2015 but it has only been in more recent years, with the advance of technology, that Cathy has organised annual zoom meetings. Cathy who started this weekly get together years ago called 'In a Vase on Monday' organised a zoom meeting yesterday, when some of us joined in from very different climatic regions. We talked about the best doers in the garden, and in the second half another Cathy showed us lovely pictures of her garden focusing on grasses.
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