Blooming Bulbs!

Tête à Tête daffodils, Jeanne d'Arc crocuses, and Early Harvest Kaufmanniana tulips

Tête à Tête daffodils surrounded by emerging Forget-me-not foliage

Purple crocuses, daffodils, and Forget-me-nots

Tête à Tête daffodils, primroses, and foliage of bluebells and euphorbia

White and purple crocuses, Tête à Tête daffodils, white hellebore flowers, and red Skimmia berries

Crocuses and daffodils

Crocuses, daffodils, and columbine

Crocuses and columbine

Purple crocuses and foliage from emerging tulips

Crocuses and tulips in the front strawberry bed

Red Showwinner Kaufmanniana tulips and purple crocuses in front of early foliage from Pink Impression tulips

Crocuses and Daffodils!

Jeanne d'Arc and Remembrance crocuses along with early Tête à Tête daffodils

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!

Happy New Year!

A frosty evergreen huckleberry

First blooms on an overwintering primrose

A cluster of frosty 'Autumn Joy' sedum

Azalea with a touch of frost

Winter spinach on New Year's Day

Surprise harvest on New Year's Day: the radishes were hiding in the cabbage bed, found a few stray carrots in another bed, and the green onions are still holding their own...

Winter Garden Colors

Strawberry leaves, chervil, radicchio, and poppies

The foliage of Sunshine blueberries is beautiful in winter.

Just a few Calendula flowers still blooming

Red twig dogwood branches in winter

Camellia flower buds waiting patiently for their time to bloom

A pretty purple-red Marner Lagerrot cabbage plumping up

December in the Garden

A few more berries on the evergreen huckleberry bushes

Snap pea shoots and blossoms still growing

The beautiful changing colors of a Sunshine Blueberry bush

Marner Lagerrot Red Cabbage

A bed of self-seeded chervil

The sage is still lovely.

A long bed of autumn spinach and freshly-planted yellow, orange, and white Fosteriana tulip bulbs. The pavers are for decoration and to keep the squirrels from digging up the bulbs. I'll move them before the tulips shoot up in spring.

Cylindra beets

Heather and Sunshine Blueberries

The strawberries are showing new growth, already getting ready for spring.

The last of the hollyhocks

Autumn Cauliflower

This is the third head of cauliflower from our fall crop.  It's delicious, and there are still several more to be harvested!

Cherry Tomatoes in November

The last of the cherry tomatoes!

Beautiful Evergreen Blueberry Bushes

The Sunshine Blueberry bushes are showing lots of new growth this month. 

The raindrops on the branches are quite pretty.

The evergreen blueberries are enjoying the autumn rains.

This large Sunshine Blueberry is at the forefront of the center garden bed.