This snow cover is so important for all of the slumbering plants…yet here it is, February, and this snow has melted off almost completely. The ground is definitely still frozen, though, and we’re hoping that the coming weeks will see fluffy white snow returning. Truthfully, we’re not ready for spring yet! We’re still enjoying planning for the coming growing season!
Strawflowers in bloom…and their amazing seeds with built-in wings for disbursement with the wind!
Nigella, also known as Love-in-a-Mist, and their incredible seed pods and tiny black seeds…which are known as Black Cumin in the culinary world!
As Michael Pollan puts it in his book, Second Nature – A Gardener’s Education, “Winter in the garden is the season of speculation, a time when the snow on the ground is an empty canvas that invites the idle planting and replanting of countless hypothetical gardens between now and spring.” Further, “In a few months, summer will pass judgment on the merit, or folly, of our January schemes, but right now anything seems possible!”
Oh so true! Not only are we perusing seed catalogs, ordering tree seedlings, and laying out exactly where we intend/hope to plant everything…we’re also busy harvesting seeds from the many dried pods and flowers that we saved in the late summer and early Fall as many of our flowers were going to seed. And that is a grand adventure, albeit a sometimes tedious one, when seeds are teeny tiny.
For now, we’ll hope for more snow and more time to harvest seeds and plan and dream of the growing season ahead.
