Although it may only be the end of January, the daylight hours are already starting to extend, and the birds sing... A few plants are even beginning to send out tentative buds in response to what has been, so far, a remarkably mild winter. In the garden centre, of course, the outside temperature has little effect on what is on display.
Today's visit plunged me into an exotic universe, at once both subtropical, equatorial and even aquatic, with the most beautiful collection of orchids that seemed to draw far more on the animal kingdom or the marine world than that of plants...
Some of the blooms seemed to have the flesh and form of sea creatures - perhaps anemones, coral or crustaceans - with plump, bulbous shapes and strange tentacle-like shoots and delicate hairs...
Others looked more like seaweed or algae, or perhaps part-fantasy fish with bizarre fins and gills...
And all were lit up with the first Spring-like light... Beautiful!
Gorgeous flowers!
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