With our open garden tomorrow, I wasn’t sure if I would have time to prepare a Six on Saturday post for Jim’s weekly meme at Garden Ruminations. However, I have been busy today with all the remaining tasks that can be done in advance, as I am determined to have the time to sit down for part of the morning tomorrow before we open to visitors at 12.00, and managed a few quick photos before the light began to fade.
The weather is still set fair and mild, and the main players in the February garden have come out to play, although the witch hazels are just beginning to drop their coloured shreds – but still exhibit their glorious winter colour and for the first time are generating a very noticeable and glorious fragrance as the days warm up. The single ‘native’ snowdrops are still not fully out but exhibit enough whiteness to make an impact, and there are now a fair number of hellebores with open flowers although overall they are much later than in a typical year. There is certainly plenty for visitors to see and smell, as you can see (but not smell) in today’s SoS photos, and we will be ready to welcome them.
Rambling in the Garden 
This looks great.
Thank you
It will be a lovely visit for those who come.
Thank you for sharing your garden at this busy time for you, good luck tomorrow.
Hope all goes well for you tomorrow Cathy… wishing you a bit of sunshine too! (That last photo of the hellebore is gorgeous!)
Looking very good with lots to see. Shame you’re not closer.
Hope you get lots of visitors Cathy. Your garden looks splendid.
?! Snowdrops are native?! I gave no thought to their origin.
Well ‘common’, rather than native – they originate from mainland Europe but have been in the UK since at least the sixteenth century
So, naturalized. That was centuries prior to anything naturalizing here, although iceplant (pigface) may have arrived with the Spanish at about that time. (It is so naturalized that no one seems to know if it was imported as we believe, or if it is native.)
And that may well be the case for many things Tony, as some believe snowdrops might have actually been brought to the UK by the Normans
You’ll have lots of visitors Cathy, and knowing that it is a wonderful to visit gardens you’ll have an appreciative audience.
Hope you’re having a sunny warm day Cathy! The snowdrops are glorious!!
I hope your Open Day has gone well. Your garden is ahead of mine – a few snowdrops here but most are still only about an inch above ground.
Love it ❤ Your garden is certainly a winter wonderland!
It shows what can be grown in the winter in gardens in the UK – a lot of ‘non-gardeners’ don’t realise the potential for year round colour and fragrance