As soon as I am done with this, I will head outside and rogue out rows of paperwhites and place them in holding areas to be identified. We are staying busy and the sun won't be up much longer, but I would like to share a few pictures.

This pink hyacinth was collected in South Carolina at an old home were it had thrived on its own. It is not the old Roman, but it is beautiful. Notice the comparison between the white Roman hyacinth and this unknown pink hyacinth. The blooms are very much larger. I will not be the judge of beauty and what is considered more desirable, but this white hyacinth is a part of a clump that will soon be filled with more, albeit smaller, flowers and stay in bloom longer. The other little flower is a jonquil placed in for color comparison.

Many of you have seen more paperwhites than you care to admit, but it is fun to observe paperwhites yawn out of their little cocoons as the weather warms up. They have the hardest time keeping the dirt off of their pure white petals, but if we still choose to where white even though we know we’re going to get dirty, we really can’t blame them.

This last photo is just the top of a crinum that has been hit by the cold. There is nothing particularly pretty about it, except that I thought it looked neat. For something that is so tough in our climate, we can’t expect it to always look perfect!