Plants Currently in My Garden
tulips, daffodils, grape hyacinths,pansies,peonies,... canna),lady's mantle, clematis, morning glory, petunias,hosta,delphinium, menarda,sedum, cone flower, lilac,grasses,sunflowers, shrub roses, huechera, lungwort,
I love to garden, because....
it is good mental and physical therapy. I love to see plants grow and thrive. I like to share the beauty with others as we are on a highway and people can enjoy them from the road. It is also a challenge. I like to design my gardens. Also I like to put surprises in the gardens like a dancing girl in the pansies.
Biggest Gardening Challenge
Energy, physical ability and time.
If I'm not gardening, I can be found:
reading,working on genealogy and family stories,
Other Hobbies
baking and collecting recipes, rearranging the house.
We still have snow coming down today and it is forecast for all week but temps in 50s and 60s by the weekend so maybe we can do fall work then. This is very early for us to have measurable snow and we are not done with fall work. The black walnut tree lost all its leaves overnight. What a surprise this morning when I looked out the window. The maple tree still has not turned color. My son in the twin cities emailed that they have had to make quick shopping trip for snowpants for the girls. Some stores were already out.
It is true that the snow coming down smells so fresh and it makes a hush when it comes down nice and slow and gently like this. BUT it is too early.
Dot, I was visiting a friend in the Twin Cities and got caught in the infamous Halloween blizzard of 1991! Ding dong went the doorbell and "Trick or treat" screamed the little kids, all the while a steady stream of over 30 inches of snow was falling. Next day, we snowshoed to the local grocery store and ate like piglets while playing games for 3 days. I finally shoveled out my car and hightailed it south to Chicago with only truckers and other crazies as my road companions. Spun out 3 or 4 times on the icy highway.
So I understand what you mean when you say that it's pretty but too early!
I remember that snow and year also! It makes great memories.......after it is all over. As I remember that snow stayed with us until the next spring. Hope this does not. We had new snow again today. The truth is that we always pray for snow to protect our plants in the winter, but are fussy about when it arrives.
I have not been in Chicago in the winter but did live in Wyandotte, Mich near Detroit one year. No snow and I longed for snow on Christmas Eve. It came! Big flakes coming lazily down just as I had wanted, but upsetting plans of others.
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