After having a very warm autumn, and a very mild beginning to December, the garden was then thrown one light snow and ice storm, then below freezing, minus windchill, and high winds right through Christmas, then bouncing back to almost mid 60-degree weather. The gardens now look tattered. Yet this one lowly pansy preservers. Never saw blooms on it this time of year.
Inspirational!
ReplyDeleteHere's to the perseverance of a pansy! Aye, Aye! And it's even wearing my favorite color of purple. Lovely!
ReplyDeleteMine too Melanie!
DeleteNever underestimate the power of a pansy!
ReplyDeleteThat is one tough ass pansy
ReplyDeleteHence the reason I never took the word pansy as an insult. They are tough little bastards.
ReplyDeleteI agree Norma!!!
DeleteNature is quite amazing, isn't it? There appears to even be a few blooms on it. Or do these old eyes deceive? Mine a flat as pancakes right now, dead I'm sure.
ReplyDeleteeven in Italy the weather was almost springlike.
ReplyDeleteMy pansies have done much the same! I look at them with admiration every morning.
ReplyDeleteSx
Strong little bitches aren't they? Today we just again had some snow, and in just two days it's going back up into the high 50's again!!!!
DeleteYou can count on the pansies.
ReplyDeleteI love a plucky pansy! Jx
ReplyDeletePansies are pretty tough
ReplyDeleteA pansy will always persevere!
ReplyDeleteI wish I had your luck. All I got was weeds. Nice pansy!
ReplyDeleteNow you remind me of Charlie Brown on the Halloween special...."All I got was a rock."
DeleteI've got a couple of viola out, some Mahonia and Viburnum and possibly the Prunus autumnalis subhirtella is in flower too if the buds haven't been washed off the branches.
ReplyDeleteDo you get the cold weather where you are? That pansy is the only color in the yard....with exception to red winterberry.
DeleteTundra Bunny here.... Pansies are tough little mofos, but my lack of gardening ability (i.e., "thumbs of death") would see them off in short order!
ReplyDeleteMine often go in the ground and then forgotten about. And they often reseed themselves. But they actually do like the cooler weather. The heat? They burn up.
DeleteSince our multi-night hard freeze my backyard looks like shit.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Janie
Fire Garden didn't look too bad until that week leading up to Christmas. And ours doesn't look much better right now either.
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