Bogturtle's Garden February 2025
4 of the sorts of Witch-Hazels are in bloom. I will try to post better photos, but I am using a Finepix camera unfamiliar to me. The flower setting gives these rather dull results. The one above is really one of the best choices, as it has 0 leaf retention. This one is Hamamelis 'Robert'. This blurry take is of H. 'Jelena', also called 'Copper Beauty'. Another, demonstrating consistently bad leaf retention. H. 'Rochester'. The Van Belder family, in Europe, released these, given names of family members. H. 'Robert' again, against the bare branches of the Cornelian Cherry 'Golden Glory'. That will be in bloom in about 2 months. Much to my surprise, the solar powered bird feeder will even send videos to my phone. And I took a video of that, put it in the computer and posted it here. Really amateur, but it does show a female Cardinal, distorted as the camera will, eating black sunflower seeds, with a chicadee trying to get some and being b...