White Helleborine

The first orchids to flower in our garden are always the White Helleborines.  Sadly, the muntjac find them absolutely delicious, so the only ones surviving to flower are either inside the vegetable garden (which is fenced) or along the line of an electric fence (which is keeping the deer out of the shrubbery).

Today we put our pot plants outside on the patio (extra).  I was curious what date we put them out last year, so looked back a year on blipfoto and, yes, we put them out on 17 May last year as well.  The main differences between the two photos are that we have also put out our sun umbrella (still in its black cover), and we have moved a bench onto the patio.