🌿 ELSIE'S HELLEBORES 🌿

Heritage Hellebore from Elsie Crawford Wood,
Shaw Islander who cultivated a garden now under the
WSF traffic lanes at the landing.
Anno twenty March two thousand and seventeen.
Celadon porcelain vase by Mideke.
For K.A.L.

"Never expose your Oranges, Lemons, and the like tender. Trees whatever seasons flatter, 'til the Mulberry puts forth its leafe, then bring them boldly out of the Green House." 
John Evelyn's spring advice to his gardener at Sayes Court in 1687.

"Presumably the mulberry waits to put forth its leaf until all danger of frost is over, so the advice should hold good for one's geraniums and other tender bedding plants."
From: A Countrywoman's Year. Verey, Rosemary. Little, Brown and Co., 1989. 

Helleborus orientalis

Longtime islander, Helleborus orientalis,
New handblown Glassybaby 'Frog Hunting,'
Ella Higginson, the first poet laureate of WA.
A trio blooming where they were planted,
Shaw Island, WA.
anno twenty-nine January 2016.