Purple hellebores
It looked grey and bare out the window yesterday. Walking outside, it was cold and windy and I returned for my hat and gloves. But right outside my front door, there was a lot happening. The daffodils' leaves were pushing up to the sky, the buds on the fothergilla were fattening, the drooping clusters of flowers on the leucothoe were forming, the red shoots of the euphorbia were emerging from the soil, the soft fuzzy fiddleheads of the tassel fern were just beginning to peak out, the snowdrops were blooming, and the hellebores were beginning their early spring show!