Virtual Mini Meeting

Marilyn and I managed a virtual mini meeting today, but unfortunately Louise couldn't get herself connected. I worked on under-planting the morning glory trellis, and am quite pleased with the finished product.

If you enlarge the photo, you will see a few tiny wire tendrils here and there on the vine. The under-planting consists of preserved reindeer moss and paper leaves and flowers. The colours are meant to underscore the morning glory's colours; tiny purple lobelia, delicate green ivy leaves, and pink and white flowers.



I also finished leafing the weeping willow sapling; it still needs to be planted, root-ball and all, in a burlap bag. It took 330 leaves to finish the tree. I like it; the leaves themselves were cut from a punched piece of hand-painted paper, and the the 11 tiny leaves were each separated from their main stem, individually creased, and then applied one by one to the tree skeleton. You can enlarge this one too, for a closer look.

And that is NOT snow outside; spring has finally come, and what you are seeing is sunlight on grey gravel, somewhat over-exposed. Overnight, the birches leafed out and showed their catkins, and the apple trees are showing tiny leaves and may blossom later this week. In the flowerbeds, two different types of primulas have opened; the original, yellow-white ones and tiny vivid pink ones. The larger cultivars - primroses - have grown up and are showing their buds; other years these have bloomed under the snow, but I guess this Spring was just too much for them, as well as for us!