Blooming Bulbs

Crocuses!

Snowdrops

Jeanne d'Arc crocuses with one 'Early Harvest' tulip

Crocus

Crocus shadows

 

Winter Flowers

First snowdrops

First crocuses

First hellebores

February Flowers and Foliage

Purple crocuses along the back yard perennial path

First yellow crocuses in the front center garden bed

A single white hellebore, waiting for company

A lovely cluster of rose-colored hellebores along the pond rockery

Hellebores, moss, daffodils, and primroses

 

 

 

Overwintered dinosaur kale, starting to perk up again

A bed of overwintered chervil, waiting for a trellis full of snow peas and a backdrop of orange Ballerina tulips

Winter Flowers

The first of the yellow crocuses

Snowdrops (Galanthus)

Iris reticulata

Winter Growth

First crocuses sprouting up

Spanish bluebells

First of the early orange Emperor tulips

Young shoots of overwintering Egyptian walking onions

New and expanding growth of Patty's Plum Oriental poppies!

The Year of the Trellis

What does a gardener do in the middle of February when it's too cold to garden very much?  Well, she browses beautiful garden books and websites, and then she does some garden-planning, of course!  That's what led to this winter urge to build things for the upcoming months.  So...

Here's my newly-built trellis for the spring and summer gardens! Imagine snow peas climbing upward in the spring along with radishes and arugula planted underneath, and then cucumbers replacing peas in the summertime. Soon I will add some chicken wire along the fronts of the trellis so the pea tendrils & cucumber vines have a little more to grab onto. It was fairly simple to build using 1x2s, a few carriage bolts, and some finish nails. Oh, plus some power tools.  So far I've built two of this variety, and another larger-scale trellis for growing squash.  Come on, spring!