Sunday, January 8, 2023

PERSEVERANCE


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.

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23 comments:

  1. Debra She Who Seeks1/08/2023

    Inspirational!

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  2. ProximaBlue1/08/2023

    Here's to the perseverance of a pansy! Aye, Aye! And it's even wearing my favorite color of purple. Lovely!

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  3. Deedles1/08/2023

    Never underestimate the power of a pansy!

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  4. mrpeenee1/08/2023

    That is one tough ass pansy

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  5. Norma Lee Drunk1/09/2023

    Hence the reason I never took the word pansy as an insult. They are tough little bastards.

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  6. Agnes Goldberg-DeWoofs1/09/2023

    Nature 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.

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  7. Xersex1/09/2023

    even in Italy the weather was almost springlike.

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  8. Ms Scarlet1/09/2023

    My pansies have done much the same! I look at them with admiration every morning.
    Sx

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    1. Mistress Maddie1/09/2023

      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!!!!

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  9. Moving with Mitchell1/09/2023

    You can count on the pansies.

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  10. Jon1/09/2023

    I love a plucky pansy! Jx

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  11. Travel1/09/2023

    Pansies are pretty tough

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  12. Bob1/09/2023

    A pansy will always persevere!

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  13. Robzilla1/09/2023

    I wish I had your luck. All I got was weeds. Nice pansy!

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    1. Mistress Maddie1/09/2023

      Now you remind me of Charlie Brown on the Halloween special...."All I got was a rock."

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  14. Helen Lashbrook1/09/2023

    I'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.

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    1. Mistress Maddie1/09/2023

      Do you get the cold weather where you are? That pansy is the only color in the yard....with exception to red winterberry.

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  15. Anonymous1/09/2023

    Tundra 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!

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    1. Mistress Maddie1/09/2023

      Mine 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.

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  16. Janie Junebug1/09/2023

    Since our multi-night hard freeze my backyard looks like shit.

    Love,
    Janie

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    1. Mistress Maddie1/11/2023

      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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