Hi! Aren't these so sweet! I adore pansies...real or on china or fabric, wherever.
I planted these pansies in October. The sign at the garden store said Winter Annuals, but I was dubious. Of course bought them anyway. I can never resist orange and purple-black Halloween pansies...
These little guys are still blooming on my deck! Mid-January. I was so surprised to see them.
They've been through a hurricane, a snowstorm/nor'easter, a couple cold snaps. Maybe even a hard frost though it's warm again here, today it was 52* when I was at the thrift shop, away from the beach winds.
It was warm enough for me to get my red parrot tulip bulbs into my planters. I never planted them because we were evacuated, then it was Christmas. I could throw them out, or what the heck: ...plant them and hope for the best?
And there were all the pretty pansies still smiling bravely at me in the winter sun. Imagine that.
I snipped off a teeny tiny bouquet of the pansies.
They do have white flecks from the salt spray...
But pretty cute for winter, I think.
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've had this china shoe for years. Made in Japan, c. 1950? Unfortunately, this morning with my usual compulsion to clean, I washed the polka dots off! [I painted them back on though, no worries.]
See the little blue rosette on the toe? Just like Snow White [Cinderella?], in the old Disney animated film where the bluebirds make the girl's dress and shoes.
I keep thinking I'll make it into a pincushion.
But so far...it's been a fun tiny flower holder, I love the ruffled edge, and orange color...and returning polka dots and all.
My parents' Cape Cod yard always had blooming flowers in the winter...pink fairy roses, blue heather, bright yellow witch hazel. And my mom would would marvel at the very notion of flowers in January, coming as she had from the frigid northern Illinois winters. She always put tiny bouquets in her favorite old aqua glass inkwells, set them on her kitchen window ledge.
And since this date was once my mother's birthday I am especially happy to have found my little pansies.
Like a remembrance.
Anything in your garden right now?
love
lizzy
......gone to the beach
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Nothing in my garden right now but dead stems and a few weeds. I like pansies, too, though...I used to plant pansies really early spring in my flowerpots on the doorstep, then sprinkle rose moss seeds all around underneath. By the time the pansies succombed to the heat, the rose moss would be getting ready to bloom.
ReplyDeleteI haven't felt up to doing much with my flowerbed for the past couple of years so it looks pretty bad. I'm hoping I can do a little bit with it this spring, get some annuals planted at least - maybe some that will re-seed - in among the perennials. It definitely needs more color that it has now!
Thanks for the pretty pansy photos! And the seaform/starfish is a cool picture too!
~Melody
My Garden is Brown and Covered in Snow.. Will b a few months yet till my bulbs come up.. That always make me Happy.. I remember As A Child My Mom would Go out early spring and get pansies for our porch.. she always said she loved their faces.. I could tell they warmed her heart.. Thank you for warming mine with the pictures.. very sweet!
ReplyDeleteSo pretty! Nothing in my yard but lots of snow. But I don't mind and I can enjoy your flowers. Love the shoe! Kit
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