The garden at the moment is in a state of suspended animation. A few weeks ago we had one or two sunny days, everything started growing, sending out new shoots, and then arctic winds from Russia came and burnt everything. The plants all just look cold and fed up, they obviously regret putting out new shoots and because it is so cold there are no bees pollinating the flowers so the few that are out are lasting such a long time. To cheer myself up I went for a wander round the garden, after putting on the coat, hat, gloves, scarf etc to keep the wind at bay, to see if I could find any flowers to photograph. We are so very lucky not to have had deep snow everywhere with power lines down causing misery to everyone, farmers especially who have lost their animals in the snow drifts, that must be devastating. My first photograph is of a Camellia, Jury’s Yellow, in the woodland which is fairly sheltered compared to the rest of the garden. Usually this goes brown at the drop of a hat, but I was amazed to see that non of the flowers had been caught by the frost.
