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Friday, February 15, 2013

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day -- February 2013

I finally have some outdoor flowers to share for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day! It's a very foggy morning here on the plateau south of Seattle. Down in Sumner, at the train station, the cloud was 600 or so feet high, but up on the plateau, we were inside those clouds. And it's struggling to get above 40 degrees.

I can barely see the trees across the street

One gorgeous, untouched-by-slugs blue primrose

I have plenty of unopened or barely open, nodding Hellebores



Hellebore 'Frilly Kitten' bought last month at Molbak's and still unplanted, is finally open

In the interests of full disclosure, here is what she really looks like, when not shooting from a crouched position way down below

Snowdrops, barely an inch or two high


Witch hazel draped in spider webs (I now have three flowers on this tree)

"Puss" did not like her bath one bit!

I do have a few other flowers that I already showed a couple of days ago, in this post.

Check out Carol Michel's blog May Dreams Gardens, the host for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. Today's post marks the beginning of the seventh year of Bloom Day posts. There are plenty of other bloggers there from around the world showing off their bloomers!