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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Fooled by a neighbour’s garden
I was wandering around my own plot, with its mixture of rain flattened shrubs and snow blackened grasses when I saw something in my neighbour’s garden that piqued my interest.
It looked like an allium. But it couldn’t be, could it? My own mahonia was about the only thing that had any colour or form in my garden, and two snowdrops, not even properly open yet, that I was watching with hawk-eyes to make sure the dogs didn’t trample them. An allium? Were there winter alliums? My neighbour does have a particularly good alpine bed, which I envy immensely. If anybody could grow it, she could.
Well no, when I managed to get close enough to find out, it wasn’t or at least not a living one – it's made of printed fabric carefully glued to a plastic stem - but for the few minutes I thought that it really was a flower, it cheered me up no end!Labels: winter colour, winter interest
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3 Comments:
How funny - in your picture it looks real - perhaps it is the fact that its on its side!!
What fun
K
LOL! I found faux purple sensation allium that I stuck in the garden for laughs! gail
Yes, I felt a complete fool (and it's not even 1 April) but actually, once I was out there, I did find a few little buds and promises that made it worth the trip up the frosty garden to investigate!
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