Today was our first snow accumulation. It always makes you feel more like ‘Christmas’ when there is a light dusting of snow. My narcissus in the window is starting to bloom. It is sooner than I thought, but not less welcome for that. The stalks grew up quite tall in my southern window shelf, but […]
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Must Our Winter Be One of Discontent?
Is our present day one of better quality of life? In many ways, yes, but somehow we largely have lost the gift of finding our contentment in the everyday. I do not know why this is, exactly, but I do believe it is a widespread phenomenon of our society. Most likely the development of the […]
Cold Exaction
The Hard Frost came this week and took it’s last toll of my garden. The nasturtiums lay in a puddled heap of wilted green. The canna and the other tropicals collapsed in on themselves…ready now for their dormant basement life through the winter. Most of the leaves are blown from the trees, but my sweet […]
Winter :Wonderland or Blahs?
I have given some thought about where I want this blog to go during the winter season. There isn’t alot of gardening news in the winter, but there is the planning/dreaming part. I usully rev up my online work in January (due to weather and my personal biological cycles), but December creates a bit of […]
Garden Planning in February
My garden is in the throes of February. It thaws, it freezes, it is ice, it is puddles, it is whatever February wants to be! I am hesitant to start seeds because I have so many irons in the fire at this time; yet I know I will be sorry if I don’t. Maybe if […]
