Aimka: Very confused hellebore has two different coloured blossoms!
Aimka: Purple-speckled hellebore
Aimka: Solid-purple hellebore (which is what the parent plant looked like last spring)
Aimka: First crocus bud of 2012
Aimka: Stachys, daffodils, & heuchera
Aimka: The watcher
Aimka: Waiting for spring
Aimka: Two days ago, it was 60+ degrees. Bah.
Aimka: Undaunted by the snow
Aimka: Snow capped garden stake
Aimka: Getting ready to open!
Aimka: Opening Day 1
Aimka: Opening Day 2
Aimka: Opening Day 4
Aimka: Step 1. Layout with bamboo stakes & your girl child's jump rope
Aimka: Step 2. Dig up grass, remove copious amounts of heavy clay, & move the stone border
Aimka: Step 3. Add delicious new soil and some gratuitous daffodils in the green
Aimka: All the crocuses came out to play
Aimka: Sedum "Autumn Joy"
Aimka: Sedum border
Aimka: The front border
Aimka: Hellebore caught nodding off
Aimka: Hellebore
Aimka: First primrose of spring
Aimka: Hellebore
Aimka: Sedum "Angelina" & crocus
Aimka: Here come the daffs (5 weeks early!)
Aimka: Shy daffodil
Aimka: After the rain this morning
Aimka: Progress of the new path: only 33 more feet to go!