See Previous | See Next Still have the snow this week, but things are starting to warm up and get melty again – the sort of weather that usually feels like messy ugh, except this means the moisture is being allowed to seep down into the garden, and so from my perspective is sort of a happy thing. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years is really convincing that some amount of snow is definitely the norm for this time…
See Previous | See Next Alright. The cold and the snow are here! Not a huge lot of snow, but very much cold enough to get that snow to stick around a while. The winter garden always looks so much prettier draped in white. Cozy and cold. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years is almost all snow (except for the last two this winter), with the whole range of aspects, from frosting, to blizzard disaster, to soggy, to sunny….
See Previous | See Next Well, January here so far has been nearly entirely warm and sunny. Or sometimes a little chilly and sunny. We’ve only just got a thin skin of snow and before that only the occasional tepid frost. It makes my garden pleasant to be out and about in, but I’d like a little winter, please. Seasons are a thing I like. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years the mosaic is kind of all over the…
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…