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.
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The alpine Phlox doug. 'Red Admiral' with flower buds just starting to form.
Aries Koreana, with a lovely dusting of frost,
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Cobwebs over the box hedge,
Erica arb. 'Alberts
Gold', looking like a snow capped mini forest.
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In complete colour contrast to
Pittosporum Tom
Thumb growing in a pot below.
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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.
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Calamagrostis x a.
' Karl Foerster ' always stands up well throughout the winter.
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Chionochloa rub. provides colour all year round.
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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.
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The tips of the
Thuja occ.
'Smaragd' look like frosted deer antlers.
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In the Oriental Garden the buds of
Magnolia 'Stella'
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along with the flower of Hamamelis Moll Pallida (Witch Hazel),
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and the catkins of
Corylus avellana
'Contorta' have all been dusted by 'Jack' as he passed through.
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Acer shirasawanum 'Aureum' showing promise of things to come.
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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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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.
ReplyDeleteI do enjoy them if accompanied with sunshine.
Delete'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 ...
ReplyDeleteThank you Ann.
DeleteLovely frosty images Brian, best way for a gardener to tackle a frosty day too!
ReplyDeleteThanks 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.
DeleteBeautiful 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.
ReplyDeleteThanks Shirley, we have escaped the snow so far.
DeleteSo 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.
ReplyDeleteThat is the problem with living in the sunny south Jessica!😀
DeleteThat you for paying my blogs a visit -. There is nothing more magical than a hoar frost is there?
ReplyDeleteThis is true, it was to good an opportunity to miss with the camera.
ReplyDeleteHow beautifully wintery! I just love grasses for that very reason. I do like your reindeer horns!
ReplyDeleteThank you Ali, I thought nature had been very creative there.
DeleteGreat 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!
ReplyDeleteThank you Cathy, -10 when it gets down to double digits, that is proper cold!
DeleteA 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 :)
ReplyDeleteThank 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.
DeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteThank you Chloris, we often get a hoar frost I think because of the moisture in the air.
DeleteI enjoyed these frosty messages Jack left in your garden. susie
ReplyDeleteThank you Susie.
ReplyDeleteSeems Wordpress had unfollowed you! I think it is a secret ploy against other blogging sites! Anyway has now been recified.
ReplyDeleteI love these photos, especially the cobweb on the summer house and the lady on the bottle. Frost does make a garden look so pretty.
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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