>(Take this rose, lovely like you, Title borrowed from one of my favourite poems by Ronsard.)
I went for dinner at my mother-in-law’s last night, and this time I didn’t bring her roses but a bunch of blue iris germanica and a bunch of white iris siberica, hoping she would like these flowers as much as I do. I suspect, though, that she cares less about the type of flowers and mainly just like flowers, especially when they are surprise presents. She always serves me a lovely meal (this time it was new potatoes, steaks and a creme sauce, served with a green salad and a very nice, heavy Salento wine), so it seems only fair to give her flowers in return for her hospitality.
Tomorrow I will go up to the garden for the weekend. I look forward to it, as always. Will the aconites be out in bloom? What about the crocus; will there be flowers on the way any time soon? And the snowdrops, how are they faring? Has the recent storms done any damage to the trees? Will the forecast of sunshine with few clouds hold true? So many questions… I enjoy never knowing exactly what I will discover on Saturday morning when I finally get to see the garden in daylight again; the thrill of knowing that there will be some development towards spring, even if spring proper is still some way off.
This season is really quite magical; the evenings are dark and cosy with the fire burning and candles aplenty, and the days are crisp and cool and wonderful for pottering about in the garden without doing any great deal of work or taking long walks in the forest or along the fjord. I crave spring, but until it arrives I am thoroughly intent on enjoying winter. Accept what you cannot change, and enjoy it!
>I would like to invite you to dinner so you could bring flowers. Please let us know the answer to all the questions you posed about your flowers, especially the snowdrops.
>I'll look you up if I'm ever your side of the Atlantic and looking for a meal in Bryn Mawr… ;-)And I will try to answer the questions, possibly with pictures. The forecast is for a couple of sunny days, so it should be possible to snap a few pictures of decent quality.
>Love flowers of any kind especially presented by someone dearly loved, its the thoughts that counts! Happy weekend looking at your garden!
>What a lovely way to open your post – I haven't come across Ronsard in much too long. Enjoy your weekend of discovery and these days right on the cusp of spring.
>P3chandan: And don't let's neglect the joy of giving flowers.Stacy: A small dose of renaissance poetry is never a bad thing… We're not on the cusp of spring here, though; freezing temperatures are forecast for the next week, and then – hopefully – we will see some thaw again.