Garden Prowess, What are these plants?

Anwers: (backwards) toorboold, yrrebredle, esormirp

Helebores

I absolutely love helebores. They are one of the first spring flowers, and their colours are so subtle and fit together so naturally. The flowers are exquisite, but they face downwards so you really need some great photos to really appreciate their beauty.

We have been the most successful with white ones, they freely propogate, and we always have seedlings coming up, great for gifts for gardening friends. The colours of the pink and dark rose are spectaculor, but seem to be more tempermental to grow. Martha Stewart had a wonderful segment on helebores from a US garden guru, they were exquisite, I will try to post a link for this place. Greg keeps trying to add to the collection.

Chronicling the Garden Year in 2009

I have decided that we need to take pictures over time to see the changes in the garden. Photostich is a terrific tool in the Canon suite, so I am starting with our April shots, now that the snow is almost (yes we still have some) gone. The top is the view of the vegetable garden, looks pretty darn stark right now.
This is the area we call the back 40. It is where all the garden junk piles collect. This winter trees were felled in this area, and hopefullythe back 40 can now have more light. Felled trees create an abundance of debris, and the "bioburner" has to be put into action, creating useful charcoal.