Just some color that I noticed today in the garden.
In early January we took a much-needed vacation and spent a week on the beaches of Sanibel island in Florida.
I had forgotten that I drastically pruned another ficus last year, and thought I'd show that too.
Just a little update on one of my houseplants, one of a few fiddleleaf figs (Ficus lyrata) I have.
It's been a fairly mild winter in St. Louis, except when it hasn't. Temperatures above normal most of the time, except for a couple of times when the arctic air arrived and dropped us to single digits. I believe the low was 4ºF (-16ºC) on two separate occasions (the second while I was out of town).
I've posted about my pond troubles a few times this year, and I've determined that I need to do something drastic.
The ice of last weekend is just a memory -- temperatures are in the 50's and 60's now, too warm -- but I wanted to still share with you what those of us whose gardens are built around bamboos see.
I haven't posted about it yet, but I recently returned from a much-needed vacation trip to Florida. One thing I brought back with me:
I've been lazy with bringing plants indoors this year. Yes, I got them into the garage when necessary, but sorting them into the "stay in the garage" and "move into basement" lots was only about 50% complete until yesterday.
If there's one thing that makes winter scary to a cold-climate gardener it's ice. Nothing has the potential for breaking the bones of a garden like an ice storm, when decades-old trees and other cornerstone plants can be damaged beyond recovery literally overnight. The number of dead limbs and twigs in my front yard is evidence of that -- I'm not sure yet if my plants made it unscathed.
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