It may have been snowing sideways today and about as cold as I can remember it a few weeks before the spring equinox, but take heart. Deep beneath us, the soil must be warming up. While snowflakes, sleet and rain eddied in circles chilling to the bone, the fragrant Clematis armandii on our building on lower Queen Anne bravely opened its snowy, starry blossoms. This tough evergreen vine with its long, leathery leaves doesn't look like it could ever produce such delicate perfection, but it's smothered in buds and curling new foliage....shown here with a haze of corylopsis picked last weekend in Langley....
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February 29, 2012
Clematis, Corylopsis and Snow for Leap Year....
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