While not getting to all the events we wanted to this Holiday season, we did manage an after Christmas trip to the Franklin Park Conservatory. I have a number of picture posts to make, but the first thing I wanted to highlight was the medley of art glass and botanical beauty that is so well […]
2009
Winter Landscape
After Christmas day rains, we again had snowfall and the ground and trees were trimmed with a confectioners icing of powdered snow. It sifted down and clung to all the branches with little puffs in the crooks and crannies of the shrubs. Since most of that took place in the night hours I took no […]
Just A Note
It snowed over night, and I woke up to the beauty of a world draped and trimmed in fluffy white. My son remarked how much warmer it felt with the snowfall, but we didn’t know why. Turns out Susan Reimer has done some homework on it: Snow actually protects the garden from the cold, and […]
Busy December
Every season has its busyness, but holiday preparing and plans always seem to compound it for December. The garden waits quietly for me- I still spend some time on it but it moves far down the task list this month. This season there are different birds in the garden, and it can be fun to […]
Mid November Garden Photos
Here are some photos in a plain collage, the only common feature is that they are from my garden and taken after frosts have visited. Now, fun question. Can you guess what the golden leaved shrub is called,(pictured in the top middle and top left photos)? The reason I wonder is [hint] because so often […]
More November Retrospects
This is the Gardener’s Year in Review…probably the one thing in which we gardening enthusiasts are a step ahead of the rest of the world: review the year in November. I spoke already of some of the successes and failures of 2009, but I have some other things to add. This blog has become a […]
