A touch of frost
Living in Plymouth, one of the mildest areas of the country, frost and snow, though not rare, is not that frequent. If truth be told, you can usually tell it's winter as the rain merely gets colder rather than turning to its icy stage.
But we've had some quite heavy frost recently and I took the opportunity to get up to the The Garden House and capture a few images. There is something magical about the crystalline nature of ice on flowers such as Erica carnea 'Myrtoun Ruby'...
..or on snowdrops such as Galanthus 'Mrs Macnamara'...
...or the opening buds of the many Helleborus x orientalis colour forms we have scattered around the garden.
It all looks a bit drastic for the poor plants but they are all hardy and will soon recover. And even parts of the garden such as the lower terrace of the Walled garden look all the better for a light frosting rather than damp anddepressing in the rain.
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