Day twenty-nine of The 100 Day Project for 2021.
I sketched this early evening yesterday. I then spent the rest of the evening working on my latest love letter to London so that would go live for my Patreon patrons in February (just!)
I picked something not too difficult to draw because I knew I would be pushed to time. I'll attempt drawing this guy in full bloom at some point during the project.
I worked with a 4H pencil to get the sketch down then went over the outline of the stem and leaf with an HB pencil. I emphasised the flower head by going over the outer edges slightly more heavily with the 4H.
I mentioned on Friday that we have several "new" plants coming through this spring. I put new in quotation marks because, clearly, they've been there for a while, but they've had to fight to get through everything else. The work we did last year has suppressed the bulk of the weeds and grass.
This guy is one of them: our single, solitary daffodil.
He was pretty early in appearing but didn't beat the solitary orange snow crocus to bloom. And expire. Unfortunately, the crocus didn't last long. I wish we had a whole yard of them. They're really rather lovely.
According to my plant-identifying app, we also have some snowdrops growing. They've not yet flowered, so I have to trust the app on that.
There is a hyacinth (just the one so far), which is new this year and looks set to flower in short order.
The bearded iris I planted late last year - gifted to us from a neighbour - appear to be coming along nicely. I need to brush the soil back from their rhizomes to allow them to see the sun, though. I'm looking forward to them flowering as they will be blue and there's quite a few of them.
The hydrangea has new growth on it despite how ill it was treated by the weather over winter. I'm hoping the dahlias manage to come up again too, but I'm not hopeful.
My plant-identifying app also tells me there's some wild garlic sprouting. I'm super excited about that and hoping it's not an instance where it's wrong (it's variable in its reliability). I love smelling wild garlic in the cemeteries we visit. I didn't even know it was a thing until a few years ago... Om nom nom.
I'll try to share some "proper" (read: DSLR, not mobile) photos from the garden on my Patreon this week when I have a chance.