I was wallowing in misery the other day, because one of the gardening pages I follow on Facebook, which is based in Britain, was showing off all the beautiful flower emerging there.
But my garden STILL looks like this:
Now, the snow has been exceptionally beautiful this year. Every time it starts to melt and get gross and dirty looking, we get a fresh snow making it all clean and sparkly again. In fact, we’re getting another good storm today.
But I miss my flowers!!!!
That said, when I was out filling my feeders the other day, I did notice come catkins on my pussywillows!
And I am absolutely thrilled! Except for one thing. Those are my PINK pussywillows. And they don’t exactly look pink do they???
For reference, this is what they’ve looked like in previous year.
Now, you can see this year’s catkins are only just getting started, so maybe they will turn more pink? I hope so. I can’t find anything on the internet about pink pussywillows losing their colour.
I guess I’ll just have to keep an eye on these and keep you posted!
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Time for Garden Dreaming for sure. Those pink pussy willows are so pretty! I hope the color intensifies for you.
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I don’t dare look at the garden yet; we are always behind yours, so there is nothing to see yet.
About 4″ of snow last night, and more coming, with super cold temps.
C’mon, Winter…ease up a little on us, please?
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No new snow here, but we are having temps in the low twenties at night and that’s very low for our plants! I sure hope they survive. Even snow is unusual for us. We have a pussy willow out back, but it’s so tall that it’s hard to see them, especially thanks to the trees around it.
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Patience! The winter has been like the ones a decade or two ago! You know you will begin to see hints of flowers emerging in another month for sure!
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Winter has too tight of a grip here to see any growth or signs of the coming Spring. Today the sun is shining – I’ll take that!
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I would kill for your snow here but I hear you about getting excited seeing the new things coming up. We did a lot of planting last year and I’m anxious to see what survived. I’m especially anxious about my new forsythia. I love to see them in bloom in early spring.
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We have about five inches of snow on the ground. No signs of spring here. But I do hope your pussy willows turn the pink that you want.
Blessings,
Betsy
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