5x7 cat commission.
8x10 cat commission.
5x5 inch tomato study.
2 4x4 inch cherry studies.
And last but not least, a repost of a facebook post.
Yesterday, we went for a stroll around the Maymont park. And there,
near Italian garden, we found a shrub. But it was no ordinary shrub! It
was a shrub covered with waxy, fragrant blooms.
Now, you cannot
blame me for thinking that Mother Nature had gone off the deep end
again- flowering things that could be smelled 20 feet away do not belong
in the month of January. But Mother Nature was not to blame here, for a
change.
This plant is originally from China, and is called wintersweet
(one of the Chimonanthus species). It is not as common in the gardening
trade as it should be, due to the long time it takes to bloom (3-7
years) and due to its relative plainness in the summer. Still.The bugger
actually blooms. Fragrantly. In the winter. And if I'm gushing, so be
it. If you are from Richmond, you have absolutely no excuse to not visit
Maymont and be amazed at this little winter miracle.
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