Wednesday 20 January 2016

Following 'Jacks' visit.



Today Jack Frost visited Our Garden@19 for the first time, to any effect.
Inspired, it was on with the layers and out with the camera before the sun became too bright and chased him away?
A misty view through the rose arch.


The window of the summer house is not looking to summery!


Euphorbia 'Glacier Blue' living up to its name.

The alpine Phlox doug. 'Red Admiral' with flower buds just starting to form.


Aries Koreana, with a lovely dusting of frost,


Cobwebs over the box hedge,


Erica arb. 'Alberts Gold', looking like a snow capped mini forest.
 In complete colour contrast to
Pittosporum Tom Thumb growing in a pot below.

Christopher Lloyd, of Great Dixter, often sang the praises of...


...Cotoneaster horizontalis, who could argue with that at this time of year?


Those grasses left standing are making a useful, bleached contribution to the garden,

Miscanthus sinensis 'Gracillimus' with its many flower heads.







Calamagrostis x a. ' Karl Foerster ' always stands up well throughout the winter.
Chionochloa rub. provides colour all year round.


A frosted bud of
Magnolia x soulangeana 'Lennei'

A late surviving flower on
Lycesteria formosa 'Goldern Laterns', also known as the Himalayan Honeysuckle, therefore -4 is probably nothing to it.

The tips of the
Thuja occ. 'Smaragd' look like frosted deer antlers.

In the Oriental Garden the buds of
Magnolia 'Stella'

along with the flower of Hamamelis Moll  Pallida (Witch Hazel),

and the catkins of
Corylus avellana 'Contorta' have all been dusted by 'Jack' as he passed through.

Acer  shirasawanum 'Aureum'  showing promise of things to come.

A dusting of icing on the leaves of Ilex x Altaclerensis  Golden King.


Cobwebs on the back of a garden chair,


a rather frosty 'Lady of The Bottle' statue.


Did 'Jack' visit your garden today?

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24 comments:

  1. Jack most certainly did make a visit today! I love the rare frosted winter days we have and how they add another dimension to the garden.

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    1. I do enjoy them if accompanied with sunshine.

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  2. 'Jack' has brought out the best in your plants - the textures are stunning. Worth wrapping up and enduring cold fingers - only a light covering here and then gone ...

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  3. Lovely frosty images Brian, best way for a gardener to tackle a frosty day too!

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    1. Thanks Julie, you are right, a quick tour of the garden with the camera, then the rest of the day in the warm playing on the computer.

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  4. Beautiful images :-) I agree with VP, frost creates a wonderful atmosphere to the garden. Nope, no sign of Jack here. We seemed to go straight to the snow stage without him. Ours snow is melting a bit now but the cold is set to return in a few days so Jack might be visiting the garden soon.

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    1. Thanks Shirley, we have escaped the snow so far.

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  5. So pretty, I love the cotoneaster with leaves edged in white. Mr Frost certainly did visit us, but it was a rush to get some shots in the bag before the sun melted the lot. And now, it seems, we're due back up to double figures again.

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    1. That is the problem with living in the sunny south Jessica!😀

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  6. That you for paying my blogs a visit -. There is nothing more magical than a hoar frost is there?

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  7. This is true, it was to good an opportunity to miss with the camera.

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  8. How beautifully wintery! I just love grasses for that very reason. I do like your reindeer horns!

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    1. Thank you Ali, I thought nature had been very creative there.

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  9. Great photos Brian. Yes, very frosty here. It's been about -6°C all day and was about -10° last night. Isn't the cotoneaster pretty!

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    1. Thank you Cathy, -10 when it gets down to double digits, that is proper cold!

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  10. A lot of very transient beauty there - thanks for sharing it! It's strange to think it's been about three years since I've seen a real frost; I've had some (cold?) damage to a couple of plants lately, but have still not seen Jack... maybe due to our low humidity? Anyway, it's lovely to see pictures of the Real Thing :)

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    1. Thank you Amy. We are in a river basin where the frosts are not as hard as the surrounding higher ground, we do however have more fog or mist. We are fortunately above flood level.

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  11. I love all your frosty pictures. We so seldom get a hoar frost like that. I missed it, by the time I went out with the camera it had melted away. So I enjoyed yours instead.

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    1. Thank you Chloris, we often get a hoar frost I think because of the moisture in the air.

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  12. I enjoyed these frosty messages Jack left in your garden. susie

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  13. Seems Wordpress had unfollowed you! I think it is a secret ploy against other blogging sites! Anyway has now been recified.
    I love these photos, especially the cobweb on the summer house and the lady on the bottle. Frost does make a garden look so pretty.

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    1. There doesn't seem to be a disere by either of the two big blog sites to be very compatible, thanks for following again Annette.

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