A dry March
Cladonia species
March turned out to be very dry. This meant it was one of the better years for photographing crocus. Usually, the unrelenting rain mashes them…
February photographs
Juniperus communis 'Hood View'
I always have more ideas for blog posts than I have time. And lots and lots of pictures. How does one whittle it all down…
Hacking away
Roots forming on the lower trunk
Today's post documents some of the winter pruning I have been doing on my dwarf Jerusalem sage, Phlomis fruticosa 'nana'. First off, was cutting out…
Buckwheat
I decided to try something new this winter. This rather untidy looking mass of gray leaves is a white-flowered form of the arrowleaf buckwheat (Eriogonum…
19 and holding
Garrya x issaquahensis 'Glasnevin Wine'
19. That, of course, is the temperature in Fahrenheit (-7 Celsius) that we dropped to after I wrote "Is winter over?" Then it rained. A…