{"id":9713,"date":"2021-01-31T23:18:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T23:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=9713"},"modified":"2021-01-31T23:18:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T23:18:23","slug":"last-day-of-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/31\/last-day-of-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Day of January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There is a fun aspect to winter in the greenhouse that I often forget\u2013the surprises that come when I only look around in there once a week. Today brought a perfect example. I opened the door and happened to look at the right shelf to see my hardy cyclamen seedlings blooming for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These seedlings are about three years old and two of them have formed bulbs in the small pot. I didn\u2019t want to put them out in the garden for fear they would get lost or eaten\u2013they are pretty diminutive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Viewing them close up is a benefit to keeping them in pots in the greenhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Between the two bulbs, there are at least 4 flowers coming, so I\u2019m pretty excited! And my micro lens picked up the pattern inside that flower that I never would have noticed from the side or top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The memory garden looks a mess, with lots of branches having fallen from the big Douglas fir and the garden\u2019s edging having been ripped out by man or beast at some point. But the plants don\u2019t seem to know. Already, there are snowdrops, crocus, Iberis, and strangely, a rose!<\/p>\n\n\n\n