A miracle in my garden...

I'm afraid to get too excited about what I found out in the garden the other day.  There are certain plants I've tried and tried and had little success with.  There is one especially that I have longed to have growing in my garden.  And now, I see that there is a good chance it will happen this year.

Hellebore 'Mardi Gras Double",  not the miracle, these are very easy to grow luckily.

I wanted to show the pretty speckled inside.

Hellebore Winter Jewels 'Cherry Blossom', probably missed the peak day by a day or two.  Somethings been chewing on it, not sure who to blame.

Hellebore - Christmas Rose type.

No this Pulmonaria isn't the miracle, although the flower surprised me today!  These bloom for months once they get started.

A happy surprise to find the Pieris in the container starting to bloom, but not really a miracle.

This might be second on the list of miracles.  The pinecone mulch seems to have prevented the squirrels from digging up the tulip bulbs.

Here is my miracle... a Delphinium is returning and the slugs haven't completely decimated it yet.  There are two that I planted last summer but since I've never had luck with them returning or being completely chewed up by slugs I sort of thought of them as an annual.   These are the one flower that I wish I could have a large stand of like I see in English cottage garden pictures.  I have sprinkled a pet and wildlife safe slug bait around them and will be guarding them them for the rest of the spring.  I will be keeping my fingers crossed that they will be blooming in June.

Any miracles occurring in your garden or any that you hope will this spring?

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