Thread: Sigh....first snowing

-LL, I bet your place is beautiful with snow! I love the look of country areas in winter. I think I remember you said you have a creek on your property- does it freeze over? -Annie, no big ferns here, which is too bad. It is western Washington that is moist enough to have those beauties! Eastern WA is considered semi-arid. I am DETERMINED to post pics again. I don't want to let one bad experience scare me away from doing something I...

It's snowing again......but it is pretty :)

77 tomorrow. Got into the 70s today. GGG is right. Our winters are usually about 6 weeks long. It's just enough time to provide some cold stratification for perennial seeds. I can grow peonies, but not lilacs. Tulips are annuals. Daffodils will be up in another 4 weeks or so. They'll be blooming in late January. Last year, January 26. The flowering quince had just started too.

The woodpeckers are back here again too. Such beautiful birds. I hang up peanut butter covered pinecones with seeds and bread crumbs. Last year the squirrels stole them off the tree (hehehe). We have so many winter birds and squirrels too (no big reds...ours are the smaller fox squirrels, but just as cute. ) I hope I can buy a suet feeder this year for the various suet eaters that frequent our property. I was cold today with a low ceiling,...

Sorry typo..'hear' not here. :-)

awww, im sorry you have snow already! I cant bear the thought of it, but i know its coming in pittsburgh soon. I have started lists of plants to add, tools i need, and im trying to brainstorm my newest bed, which will take up the back quarter of the backyard. I also will be replenishing my garden fund. Theres a statue of a girl maned Hebe thats 400 dollars ( 5ft tall tho), i have to save for, she'll be going in the back garden . I have...

Yesterday was nice here, but a little bitter. I used it to get some garden work done. I planted 2 roses and a few peony tubers. Also, got a few other little plants and bulbs put in. I still have a lot to do, but time is running out! I don't want winter to come, sigh.

I, too am late in cutting back some things because they are still blooming here and there - in November! But I think I'll cut back the peony foliage at least. Yesterday would have been the perfect day to work outside but I was running around getting things to repair holes in a wall, then cleaned house the rest of the day. Pretty darn cloudy here this morning.

GGG, same here. We worked on a fence repair today and the mosquitoes were terrible. I noticed the paperwhites have fresh green leaves. Still no blooms on the camellias, but they're full of buds.

Like lilyfinch, last year was the year I really started getting serious about gardening. This winter, I will be bending all my brain power (as limited as that may be-hehheheh)to the task of devising a way to keep the slap-happy idiots out of the gardens. It will probably take every waking hour until spring (except for those hours spent on our weekend trivia) to come up with something that just might confound them for five minutes! So...