Love Hate Relationships of a Lenten Rose Garden

An end of a perennial cycle and a beginning of a perennial cycle. 

Today in my Lenten Rose garden the strong hardy summer ground cover foliage is done.  It looks bad and it's hard to watch but I know in two weeks it's gone and nubile flowers will be all we see.  On this plant, this year, the bouquet is massive.  I'm dubbing this plant trophy size.

I hate this time of the year.  Everything looks so bad in the garden. Yesterday.

Today it's not so bad and I know in two weeks you won't see a trace of last years beautiful round.  I love this time of the year, in two weeks.