A Frozen Bloom Day

It snowed lightly in the night in the last puff of a near all rain, three day winter storm. There was a remnant etching of it in the garden when I came home. It was also below freezing. No worries.

I have frozen snowdrops for January's Bloom Day and they will be just fine. This is when they are supposed to bloom. I planned and planted ahead.

I actually have a twelve foot diameter circle of snowdrops coming up. On a winter day at just the perfect moment, a ring of snowdrops will be a pure white circle of peak bloom. Their numbers have grown enough that is becoming visible from a distance.

And if you go walking this mountain, you can find thousand more snowdrops. Cause Bulbarella.

I really did plan and plant ahead. After living in the tropics and sub-tropics for so long, there was no way I was going to be without a fully functioning garden twelve months of the year just because I moved to a zone 6a/bish, on a North Carolina mountain top.

The Witch Hazel 'Jelena' is blooming now. No worries. Freezing doesn't matter. It's all good. This is the right time.

'Jelena' has grown enough to start becoming a presence in the winter garden.

Getting flowers to bloom in January isn't even the main part of a garden that works twelve months of the year. That's just a bonus.

Much is going on around 'Jelena'.

'Arnold's Promise' will bloom next. The flower buds are swelling and peeking yellow.

For January's Bloom Day and the entire cold barren time of winter, as the snow melts, the Under Garden of a low mounding tapestry of texture and color comes into full bloom. I planted it so.

More kind flowers can be found at Bloom Day Headquarters for sure.

A garden in winter is a living canvas that calls you outside to enter. There you can find actual flowers may very well be dancing through the grass.