Spring is coming soon, and it will finally cover our whole garden with its colors, it will fill its entire space with buzzing bees and all kinds of insects, birds... and of course, cats and all sorts of other animals that live in it during the warm months and we will quickly forget what it looked like in winter. No one will want to know what it looked like in the winter. Although in winter nature is extremely interesting. Just like our garden, where amazing things happen even during these cold and unfavorable months.
In the first place are the trees with their budding branches which even made me worry about them.
This is a cherry tree branch:
and it's not photographed like that in spring.
These pictures were taken in the beginning of December.
These is a Paulownia tree branch. Again, captured in December.
I've already told you about the strange behavior of the one Paulownia tree last year. It didn't blossomed. It came into leaf, without going through its flowering phase.
So now I wonder what will happen to these trees this year, how their cycles of development and life will have changed after this branch budded in December. Of course, for now we are lucky that this year's winter is mild and it has not snowed much, and this snow has not lasted long. But still.
Another surprise are these evergreen shrubs. Well, maybe that's normal for them - to bloom or bear fruit, whatever this is, right in the winter, but the view is still strange. In the period of the year in which everything dies, they are still flourishing.
But the greatest mystery is this bush here:
Surrounded by bees from the moment it bloomed.
Did you know that bees do not hibernate? Or at least obviously not all species.
At the moment, not even those big black carpenter bees are sleeping because they come to this bush.
Hyacinths have begun to grow. Well, that might be the right thing to do.
But there was a dandelion that stood in the garden with its yellow color, perhaps until December. Now it looks like this:
Here are other 'normal' things:
the maple tree seeds, hanging on the tree branches almost during the whole winter.
And the catkins of the hazel:
In fact, it's as if I'm seeing them for the first time because they're so interesting and beautiful to me. Don't you think so?
And finally, one of the inhabitants of the garden - our little black panther:
The inhabitants, the tenants (or we, humans are the tenants in this case) are many more, but the post will become huge if I show you all of them.
So until next time, nature lovers!💚
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