This year what better flower to choose to wish that 2016 brings everything all my visitors would want for themselves.
You may remember that in an earlier post I was pondering the misnomer of the names Christmas Rose and Hellebore Niger. Well I've been doing some research and found one or two things on the Internet which try to explain what seem to be inappropriate names so I have updated the post here with some snippets of what I found out.
Now I wonder why the hellebore above is sometimes referred to as the Lenten Rose?
I've always thought that Helleborus Niger - the Christmas Rose was inappropriately named on several counts.
It's not black (niger)
It's not a rose or even from the rose family
Despite featuring in many Christmas cards - it doesn't flower at Christmas.
This year it is living up to the Christmas handle and as in many other gardens ours is in full flower.
Some flowers have even already gone over and it is a pity soil has splashed some of the flowers but the plant has flowered better than any previous year and avoided slug devastation so we can't have everything.
Concern shifts from wet to cold
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Throughout April our concern has been the lack of anything resembling a dry
spell of weather. However, the latter half of the month has been drier and
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60103 Flying Scotsman with The Yorkshireman
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It's a long time since we've been out capturing any steam on the main line
and we were definitely out of practice.
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