Above is a photo of the winter pansies and ivy which I planted before Christmas, in the hope of having some cheery colour in the garden during the winter.
But it wasn’t to be, the pansies hardly flowered at all until we got a wee bit of heat and quite a lot of sunshine recently. This always happens with me and winter pansies, they seem to be a misnomer in my neck of the woods anyway, perhaps our winters are too cold and dark.
What is more annoying though is the state of the jute liner of the wrought iron basket which has been nicked by blackbirds as nesting material. I’ve been looking at other people’s jute basket liners and they seem to be intact. I must just have particularly badly behaved birds in my garden.
Oh, thanks for that post, it brought a smile indeed: the cheery flowers, and the dishevelled jute!
Valerie,
It’s just as well that I also lined it with plastic bags otherwise all the compost would have fallen through!
I like that your birds are targeting your fibre liner! May be nesting very close!
Evee,
I’m sure they are nesting close by, in those woods probably. It’ll be a few years before there’s anything thick enough in my garden to hold a birds nest!
Winter pansies? Nothing survives outdoors in flower here during the winter. Too bad yours did not thrive. It’s original planting is very pretty though đŸ™‚ That’s funny about the basket liner being such great bird nesting material! I can see its attraction.
Stefanie,
We have quite a lot of plants which flower in the winter but our winter weather isn’t as harsh as yours, thankfully.