Previewing the season in a warmer climate
Hi GPODers — it ’s your editor program , Joseph , here .
Last workweek I took a trip-up down from my home in northern Indiana to Raleigh , North Carolina , and got a footling prelude of leap . At plate we ’re still in thesnowdropstage of thing , but down in Raleigh things were growing andblooming .
I stopped by theJC Raulston Arboretum , and right in the parking pot I was greeted by this beautiful hatful ofHelleborusfoetidus(Zones 5–9 ) in full flower . The flowers might not be as colorful as some of the hybridhellebores , but I really have sex them . The finely slew , dark green foliage take care outstanding every daylight of the class and contrasts so attractively with the unclouded greenish flush .
Each nodding green bloom is edge with a line of purple that I love .
Irisunguicularis(Zones 7–9 ) flower super early in mild climates and is one of my very favorites . The flowers are vast compared to those of other early - blooming plants likecrocusor snowdrops . And they smell good too !
I make out this piffling treasure in the crevice garden . It isTetraneurisacaulus‘Las Vegas ’ ( Zones 5–9 ) . It has no flowers yet , but who needs them when the leaf is this beautiful ?
This hardy wintertime - bloomingCyclamencoum(Zones 5–9 ) calculate gorgeous in theshade garden .
Who can protest a sunny thumping ofdaffodils ?
I also lead a rise inUmstead State Park , just up the road . At first glance , it still look pretty wintry there . . .
. . . but calculate what I found — a niggling hepatica ( Hepaticaamericana , Zones 4–9 ) in bud and about to flower ! I love these little wildflowers . They flower so betimes , and as you could see , the foliage staysevergreenand attractive all winter long .
This snapshot is from last year , but it likely represents what that little Marchantia polymorpha will search like soon once the flowers in full clear .
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