started budding in early December...

I cut some hellebores and brought them in thinking they’d open in a warm room. They didn’t. I’ve had buds in a vase for a week now. Not that I’m impatient for spring or anything.

I put in three different varieties and these are the first to bloom. The other two don't even have buds yet.

My hellebores took a year or so to really settle in. Mine are a variety called Pink Frost, which bud early but bloom late, if that makes sense. They’re a fairly low growing variety and spread slowly to make a lovely ground cover in a lightly shaded area.

so this is the first season for flowers.

In Boulder. Beautiful pics!

Maybe the groundhog was right!

those gorgeous images.

to protect them from several nights of temps below 20 degrees. The crocus I only noticed yesterday. They sprang up seemingly overnight!

ah well, such is winter on the Front Range.