Flowers, plants from Columbus Home & Garden Show grown locally

The sign outside Seely’s Landscape Nursery earlier this week read “40 days until spring,” while snow and ice covered much of the grounds at the Hilliard business.

With temperatures in the teens and 20s much of this past week, and winter very much still upon central Ohio, the trees and shrubs outside at the nursery looked bare and drab. 

Inside the plastic-covered greenhouses, however, the plants told a different story — one closer to the warmer seasons Seely’s is eagerly anticipating. 

A few yellow daffodil blossoms were beginning to poke out while the lungwort had already bloomed a sea of pink and blue flowers. Luscious ferns and other leafy species boasted bright greens and the purple from the azaleas near the back could be seen already. 

The ivory and wine-colored Lenten roses were budding weeks before their namesake and the magenta blossoms on the rhododendrons large and full.