Author: Mary Lou Gripshover

not daffodils — helleborus

The weather has been mild–until today. Quite a few hellebores are beginning to bloom. But it’s about 15*F now, with the wind howling, so I don’t know what they might look like tomorrow. Some snow is predicted, which will be…

blooming

Friends, This spring I received 2 rounds of ‘Emerald Monarch’ (still to be registered 8 W-G) from John Hunter in New Zealand. Amazingly, it bloomed in June. John said the blooms were not typical. It’s been in bloom now for…

Oooops

Ooops. I said Lawrence was from Tasmania. He’s not, he’s from the A.C.T. area of Australia. Mary Lou

blooming in Ohio, in time for Christmas

Friends, Today I have my first daffodil of the season, just in time for the Christmas holidays! It’s a seedling bred from ancestors around the world, like most Americans who can trace their roots to other countries. The seed parent…