originally posted Dec 1, 2008 Christmas gardening isn’t really winter gardening. It is set apart quite like the holiday itself. The Christmas garden might find itself lit up as we brave the cold to string lights on our bushes and along the eaves of the porch. Some of us can’t resist a few evergreen or […]
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Winterizing The Garden, Putting Pots And Containers To Bed
Winter, Ready or Not? Kathy Purdy had an excellent article on how she is winterizing her potted plants in her New York yard and I thought I would add my experience here in the cold climate of Ohio to the mash. First on my list is simply getting the terra cotta pots into my unheated […]
Winter Gets Weaker
Winter can’t possibly hang on, it knows that… and each passing week it gets weaker ( teeny tiny pun there). Yet, until sometime in May we can get frosts. Recently we got walloped with a snowstorm here in Ohio and some of it is still on the ground today. I have taken lots of photos […]
It is Springlike
Did Ohio forget Winter? This morning I woke up to hoarfrost on the ground, from the fog of last night. It seems as if we have had spring all through the winter months. Thanks to the Christmas Rose Hellebores I have had flowers in my garden all year. That never happens…until now. A real first […]
A Robert Frost Sort of Evening
Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winterby Robert Frost The west was getting out of gold,The breath of air had died of cold,When shoeing home across the white,I thought I saw a bird alight.In summer when I passed the placeI had to stop and lift my face;A bird with an angelic giftWas singing in it […]
Mythical Spring
early spring snowstorm 2010 I am starting to understand ancient man’s reason to tell the myths of Springtime. The Persephone and Brigid myths represent the struggle felt as winter is wont to let go and spring must irresistibly arrive. The old stories of the struggle for power between the Cailleach (the old woman of winter) […]
