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One of the most famous and celebrated of Chinese landscape paintings. A replica on display in the Art Library at UCSB.
Vernal Witch-hazel (Hamamelis vernalis) is such a great shrub to have in the garden. It is the first shrub at Distant Hill Gardens to flower, usually in late February or early March, well before any other plant. It is a North American native, groing naturally in the southern and central United States. Even so, it does extremely well in the cold north. To avoid freeze damage, the petals roll up on very cold days and reopen as the day warms up. The flowers are pollinated by winter moths that are active on cold nights, and some early bees and flies on warmer days.
The flower of the Vernal Witch-hazel (Hamamelis vernalis) is incredibly beautiful. Not bad for the first flower to open after a long cold winter at Distant Hill Gardens.
Click here to see more of this beautiful spring-flowering shrub.
This wetland isn't really remote, its near a main road. Still, it is protected and quiet. A few nearby homes and farms nicely fit into the area.
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These bulbs should not be poking their heads out of the ground yet; Spring bulbs in February? I know the groundhog said we would have an early spring, but this is ridiculous!
1. sunset soap dish, 2. Colorful spools, 3. Untitled, 4. Moon Winx, 5. MOON-WINX COURT, 6. Blue Poppy, 7. LMKG Drawstring Pouch, 8. 03-23-08 104, 9. knitting 013, 10. Untitled, 11. IN MEMORY, 12. focusing on the background, 13. hooray sheep!, 14. f 1.8, 1/50, 15. blue, 16. sunshine in her hair
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The morning started with medium overcast, though the night before we were enjoying the bright new moon and the stars. The first night wasn't exceptionally cold - the water left outside was still in its liquid form in the morning when we woke up.
Listera australis
According to Paul Martin Brown, in Wild Orchids of Florida: This spring ephemeral appears quickly in February in the north part of the state, having a preference for damp, often seasonally flooded deciduous woodlands. Most populations consist of less than a dozen plants. The species sets seed and senesces quickly, so that a month after flowering there is usually no sign of the plants until the next season. They are listed as threatened in Florida.
Pushing up through a tangled mat of winter's residue, the flowers of Hepatica rise. Every year, these wildflowers delight me by emerging like this, but this year - coming up this particular week, as the events of the Boston Marathon unfolded - they seemed to symbolize something important.
And so l wish to dedicate this picture to people anywhere, everywhere, who have had to deal with events they never wanted to see...but who somehow have the strength to rise from it all...and go on to flower.