Here it is November, and just days away from Thanksgiving. I hope the warm weather we are having now doesn't keep spring from coming early in Ohio this year.
I have planted my bulbs for spring, and have prepared for the great hibernation. I'm looking for a wet, and white winter this year. It's just my opinion, but it feels like it will be warmer this year. But this warmer weather will come at a cost of lots of snow.
I have covered my more delicate plants with a layer of leaves. This would be my lavendar, and thyme, and camomile. Don't let the little thing on the back of your new lavendar fool you. The hearty lavendar doesn't always make it through a hard winter without some help.
So the snow is aleady flying in the good ol' USA, and will be here soon. Yeah I know, EVERYONE loves the white crap for awhile. When we have to stack it up with backhoes, then they change their story!
I like to look at it, and used to love to play in it. Until I got strep throat one year, and didn't know I had it. It left me with rheumatism at twelve years old. It didn't hold me back until the last few years really. I'm guessing it's more from what I used to do for a living, more then the rheumatism itself.
So now I love the snow for exactly one day, and I wait for spring the rest of the winter. Sure I roll out the Yule log, celebrate and have a great time. Afterthe Holidays there is nothing, not even football! The snow that is piled up becomes ugly with black crap from cars, the ice builds up on the more less used roads, and everyone is where I am with winter.
Around the end of Febuary I start to come back to life, and mid march I will begin to germinate my seeds, and hope for an early spring.
I will not uncover my plants until at least two snows after the forsythia blooms. A warm teaster before then will bring out the daffodiles and crocus, and the tulips not far behind. I don't mind covering them once, but more then that...why?
So underground I go. Just like Persephone, I will see you in the spring.
I have planted my bulbs for spring, and have prepared for the great hibernation. I'm looking for a wet, and white winter this year. It's just my opinion, but it feels like it will be warmer this year. But this warmer weather will come at a cost of lots of snow.
I have covered my more delicate plants with a layer of leaves. This would be my lavendar, and thyme, and camomile. Don't let the little thing on the back of your new lavendar fool you. The hearty lavendar doesn't always make it through a hard winter without some help.
So the snow is aleady flying in the good ol' USA, and will be here soon. Yeah I know, EVERYONE loves the white crap for awhile. When we have to stack it up with backhoes, then they change their story!
I like to look at it, and used to love to play in it. Until I got strep throat one year, and didn't know I had it. It left me with rheumatism at twelve years old. It didn't hold me back until the last few years really. I'm guessing it's more from what I used to do for a living, more then the rheumatism itself.
So now I love the snow for exactly one day, and I wait for spring the rest of the winter. Sure I roll out the Yule log, celebrate and have a great time. Afterthe Holidays there is nothing, not even football! The snow that is piled up becomes ugly with black crap from cars, the ice builds up on the more less used roads, and everyone is where I am with winter.
Around the end of Febuary I start to come back to life, and mid march I will begin to germinate my seeds, and hope for an early spring.
I will not uncover my plants until at least two snows after the forsythia blooms. A warm teaster before then will bring out the daffodiles and crocus, and the tulips not far behind. I don't mind covering them once, but more then that...why?
So underground I go. Just like Persephone, I will see you in the spring.