Tangled Branches: Cultivated
happenings in and around my zone 6b gardens in northern Virginia and in central Virginia
Friday, December 01, 2006
Wild Weather
Windy, very windy! Just decided to take a break from watching the neighbors' unraked leaves blow into my laboriously raked yard. I hope when the wind shifts later this afternoon, they all go back into the neighbors' yards.
But our weather is positively tame compared with what the Midwest is getting. I wonder how many snowflakes it takes to make, say, 12" of snow over an average sized city? The answer might be somewhere on this site, if one had the time to go through it all. Individually, snowflakes are so pretty. Some of them even look like flowers. Like this one, for instance. And this one looks a lot like Ipheion uniflorum to me.
I'm choosing to ignore winter this year. Yesterday, I bought some hardy (I hope) plants to replant the containers on my front steps for the season. I got white heather (in bloom), creeping cotoneaster (with berries), and variegated English ivy. I promise not to let the ivy escape into the wild, assuming it lives through the winter. If the containers turn out looking like anything at all, I'll post pictures, otherwise forget I said anything.
I'm too late for the Garden Bloggers' Book Club, but I hope to post my review of The Essential Earthman next week. I plan to be on time for December's selection. I don't want to read any of the other reviews before I write mine, so it's time for me to get offline before I'm tempted.
Labels: books, plants for winter, weather
3 Comments:
I'm with you on the Earthman... I figured that I would post it sometime this weekend, and just add the link as a comment on the wrapup post. I really wonder what happened to November this year--where did it go?!
Austin has had some light snow in the 7 years since we came, but the ground was warm, so things got slushy fast. No chance to catch flakes before they melted, so the ones on the snowflake site will have to do this wintert!
Pansies and Dianthus usually bloom even in winter here. They went in the hanging baskets once the potato vines and impatiens were done. I have Ivy in two containers in front, but it isn't too happy - been replaced once already. I don't want it to get loose in the landscape here, either, so am not really unhappy that it isn't thriving.
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
B_G: Here I am almost a week later, and still haven't managed to write anything about The Essential Earthman. December is going the way of November, I think.
A in A: Ah, I think I'd like Austin in the winter. We usually get several snowfalls that stick for a while, and every now and then we get a huge snowstorm. Last winter was pretty benign here although, looking back through my notes, I see that it did snow just a year ago.
We see a lot of pansies planted in the fall here, but they always look cold and unhappy by January. I haven't tried any fall-planted ones for a long time.
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