February 9, 2010 at 04:29 A new favourite viola:
Sorbet™ 'Babyface Purple' Viola
I think I'll plant them with my old favourite 'Lemon Sorbet'.
Violas in balcony garden February 3, 2010 at 08:00 
"It seems to me
we can never give up
longing & wishing
while we are alive.
There are certain things
we feel to be beautiful
and good,
and we must
hunger for them.
~ George Eliot
After work yesterday I was hungry for beauty and goodness -- well, more like starving for them. So I went out to my balcony to experience colour, sweetness & life. Primroses, a little bird, soft light, and contemplation through a camera lens; February's versions of sunshine, freedom & a little flower.
balcony garden, beauty, food for the soul, quotations in Why I garden January 15, 2010 at 21:45 January may not be the greenest, brightest or most exciting month for Northern Hemisphere gardeners but it does have hidden gems & pops of colour. If not for my daily commitment to spend a few moments behind the lens (I joined this 365 group on January 1st), I suspect I would overlook or undervalue beauties like these:
...one shiny, black berry nestled in the grassy fronds
... tiny mustard-yellow flowers warming up the grey, mid-January light.
Top photo: Black Mondo Grass (Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens')
Bottom photo: Witch Hazel (Hamamelis)
