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Bleeding Hearts near our trail |
One never knows what winters
in the mountains will bring. Unlike many friends who also live here full time, we
don’t escape to Florida when cold winds start to blow. We actually enjoy the
season and look forward to being snowed or iced in for a day or two as long as
we have plenty of good food and wine.
This winter was a bit
different. My mother fell in November and broke her hip and did not recover as well as the doctors had hoped. I went down to Florida several times to help out. Here at home we did have one nice snow,
but the rest of the season was pretty much a blur.
Mother passed away somewhat
unexpectedly a few weeks ago. Please don’t feel sorry, it was a blessing. She
had some serious ailments we didn’t know about, and she went downhill
quite quickly.
When I returned from the service in Florida, Carolina wildflowers greeted me. The 14 roses I’d planted or
moved the day before she died were displaying vigorous new growth. And it
looked like the hydrangeas were setting buds after two flowerless years. I
appreciated all these sights more than I can say.
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Pink Lady Slippers are blooming |
A garden can be a source of
joy and a source of solace. The past few months have been tinged with sadness.
But I am comforted by the hope that 2016 will be one of our most rewarding gardening years
ever.
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We added Yellow Lady Slipper Orchids to the wildflower garden
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A segment of our forest has become trillium heaven this year |
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A clematis we thought was a goner is back and blooming |
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'Music Box' is a new addition to the rose garden |
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Can't wait to see my new 'Cherry Parfait' look this yummy |
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'The Poet's Wife' |
'The Poet’s Wife’ is just one
of six new David Austin roses that will be taking a bow in the Hunt garden this
year. You can be sure when they start flowering, along with the hydrangeas,
salvias, coneflowers, centranthus and phlox, I will wax poetic about them all.
Until then, happy Spring.