Tuesday, 12 January 2021
At home
The sight of the overflowing pond drew me out into the garden for some photos.
Front garden:
Allan’s garden:
Back garden:
“If you really want to draw close to your garden, you must remember first of all that you are dealing with a being that lives and dies like the human body, with its poor flesh, its illnesses at times repugnant. You will not seeing it always dressed up for a ball, manicured and immaculate.”
About to retreat to the house, I took a telephoto of the storm flag, which was the serious square one.
I did order my seeds, using up much brainpower to figure out what I needed and what I had left over from last year that would still be viable. I almost forgot that I like courgettes now! Pinetree seeds got the biggest order because of their good prices. This is the first year I have ever begun with such serious kitchen garden plans.
I wrote the two posts about reading Rosemary Verey and had time to finish my book before dinner. The lights flickered as the wind whined outside but our power stayed on.
A literary cat! Also, wonderful picture of a gray face peeking out. I so enjoyed seeing all the details of your garden. I wish there were a portal from my town to your town so that I could easily visit your garden. And, of course, no pandemic. But if I’m going to wish for portal, then getting rid of the pandemic shouldn’t be too much of a stretch.
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I wish my purple portals worked like that. I’d love to visit your little red house in Maine.
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And I would love to have you here. Tea on the patio in July, when my gardens are at their best. We can dream…
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Your clematis is still blooming? That is a beautiful specimen. I’ve spent the last two days here re-working barrel planters and rescuing bulbs. The voles were so bad last year we lost a number of bulbs, especially crocus, to them. I took one barrel and moved a purple clematis to it, along with its trellis. We’re back in rain today.
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I hate voles. Although I have rescued them from Skooter.
Freckles is a clematis that chooses winter as its blooming season. It’s pretty amazing to me.
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In a normal year it is the pocket gophers who are more of a problem. We manage to coexist peacefully. The volemic this year was something else. The ground looks like Swiss cheese. They ate everything.
I will have to look into Freckles. It may be a little too cold here in the foothills.
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The rain here has been relentless this January, and much of my garden is bogsy. Slosh slosh.
Another wonderful post of your winter garden. Love the screwdriver wheel, and the stacked rusted bottom buckets. And of course the planting variety.
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Thank you, friend.
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Pine Tree seeds are great. I’m from Maine and remember when they started. They used to sell small packets of seeds, geared towards home gardeners. It was a great wat\y to try different varieties.
All I have in Northern VA is snowdrops
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I remember those days of the really cheap small packets of seeds. Probably was not very profitable.
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The garden is looking very good in spite of the relentless rain.
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Absolutely beautiful!
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There is lots to admire in your winter garden, including the Cattens! The clematis ‘Freckles’ is beautiful. Happy to hear you did not lose power. We were without power for a few days after a windstorm came through the night of the 13th. Such a nuisance! No major damage, but lots of tree branches to pick up.
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Wow, a few days, hope you had a generator for your freezer and such. You seem like the kind of folks who would be well prepared. We bought a generator finally because with the pandemic and all, didn’t want to lose our freezer food. The generator is still in the box.
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We have a small generator and wood stove. The generator powers most of our lights, refrigerator/freezer, tv, and computer. Not good timing, though, since Alan home recovering from heart surgery on the 5th. He is doing well, though.
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Whaaat? Emailing you!!
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