Depressingly, not much happening in my garden. We have had numerous hard frosts now, so, even though today is +3, there's very little colour to see. I did manage to harvest seed pods from a pink asclepias, however, so there may well be more of those lovelies next year. This was a new one purchased at the Veseys spring sale. I have had an orange one for some time, and this year I moved it from the 'holding' bed in the vegetable garden to the 'hot bed' by Primuland. It didn't do well. Still alive, though, so I hope for better next year.
I have a lovely solo shot of the pink asclepias but for some unknown reason blogger refuses to load it. It's just to the left of the pink rudbeckia in this general garden shot. Best I can do.
I really appreciate the evergreens now that the rest of the garden has gone brown (or under cover). The hellebores (though not blooming, not until May in this climate) are looking fresh and green, and so is this little eunomyous in the shrub border by the driveway. Un-noticed the rest of the year, but a shining star in December! Other evergreens include the lovely winterberry, which is tiny, but in its way making moves to take over the garden. I dug up several small suckers in spring, now tucked into the cold frame for winter, and I see it has produced another half-dozen or so. I must look for a place that could do with a 20 cm. hedge!
The vegetable garden still has some things going on - the kale is still holding out, and the leeks are not growing, but surviving under straw, and I can go out in the daytime and dig up a few for supper. I don't have much luck storing them, so I probably won't harvest them all. But I am thinking about lifting them and leaving them on the ground, covered with straw and fleece. I know they will get frozen into the ground soon, and I'm not sure how they will survive on top! But in storage they just dry out and get woody, and the same thing happens when I freeze them. Waste of time and space in the freezer!
