Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - January 2012

Helleborus niger 'Josef Lemper'

Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for January 2012.

Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 5B garden in central Indiana, winter finally arrived last week after ten plus days of above average temperatures.

This helleborus, which has been blooming since mid-December, is frozen in mid-bloom, half covered by snow. When warm days return, which we are told will happen