See Previous | See Next Happy New Year! It’s still a pretty warm winter so far (snow’s all gone again), though not yet as very, very dry as that can mean. My rose canes are still happy, anyway (let’s hope that continues to last!) and in the meantime there’s always the ever-growing vinca… Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years is a kind of chaos maybe pointing toward more snow. The mosaic has nearly all the different types represented at…
See Previous | See Next Well, we got just enough snow Christmas Eve to make it look like my hellebores were masquerading as sugar cookies. Not quite enough snow to be white-Christmas-level decorative, but still kind of decorative. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years seems to be predicting more snow to come! But it’s actually really random, as that shot of hardy violas this time two years ago also points out. Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years somehow…
See Previous | See Next So, the vinca in my gardens is one of my banes. It grows in the winter, for goodness’ sake! So even if you’ve got things tidy in the fall, in the spring when all the things you planted on purpose are trying to poke their heads out, the vinca is already there, wrapped around them. But…it is nice to have something pretty and green right now, peeking out from amongst the brown, undaunted. Looking back…
See Previous | See Next So, this past week the snow did all completely melt, such that the ground was visible even in the front garden. As soon as that was done, though, it promptly snowed two very decorative inches of snow, as shown in the photos – so very pretty! And now it is, promptly, working on turning all soggy and melty again. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years gives a deceptively strong impression that December has been…
See Previous | See Next Well, there’s still snow on the ground, though things are getting soggy and drippy. Catching my garden just when the sun is coming through the scraggle can be pretty, but mostly we’re at the stage of ‘Ah, why didn’t I properly tidy this mess (back garden) before it got snow all over it?!’ Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years gives a strong reminder of how quickly things can dry back up into a brown…
See Previous | See Next Well, here’s that snow everything was hinting at. We got a good six inches this week! The next question is always, of course, how long will it last? Colorado winters are very dry and, lately at least, only intermittent about staying below freezing. Never-the-less, my front garden is so shady I’d say there’s even odds I won’t be seeing the ground there again until the spring. (But yay! I just managed to get it trimmed…
See Previous | See Next It’s so dark out so early! No longer being on Daylight Savings Time means I don’t get to see my garden as much when I come home from work. Never-the-less, it’s still there, and a few plants are even managing to add a little bit more fall color as the weather thinks about turning properly cold. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years is kind of a mish-mash, with general agreement that brown-ness trends will…
See Previous | See Next Well, we have definitely now entered the brown phase of Colorado Front-range fall/winter. I almost said ‘the everlasting brown phase’, but of course this whole post-series puts the lie to that. We have come to the time of year, though, when a long look at the landscape reminds you that this is the next thing to a desert, and the bits of beauty hiding out in the garden require, usually, a rather close eye. Looking…
See Previous | See Next This week warmed up again a little bit and the snow of last week all melted. We had a brief window of that muddy, warm, melty time when the breeze can almost fool you that it’s actually spring, but it’s past now and everything is less green than before, rather than more. The foliage that hadn’t turned its fall colors yet seems to now be going straight from green to brown. Looking back 1-2 weeks…
See Previous | See Next This week the snow has arrived! at least for a brief visit, along with the cold that didn’t seem quite real last week. We got enough to blanket things, but the temperature’s rising already, so we’ll see what next week brings. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years still has suggestions of flowers, along with pretty autumn colors for the barberry bush that still haven’t quite shown up yet this year. Half the trees and…