rainymountain's Frontyard garden

Looking gloomily out of the window thinking, “Dead, dead, sad browns everywhere….green here, green there.” In fact now the blooms are all finished – the Autumn crocus are temporarily (?) strewn like delicate Georgian ladies who have fainted onto the cold earth, all filmy c...

Rain, rain and heavy rain yesterday and the day before, and snow almost down to the township this morning, the trees all heavily covered. By mid-day it was 9C and the snow line had retreated way back up the mountain. It is like the tide coming in, forward and back, further forward and back again....

A small box was waiting at the Post Office, and as it wasn’t actually raining, the contents got planted tout suite. The earth was wet but not soggy, and not cold either. The Angelique tulips went into their pot and it got covered with the rest of the sack. I think I can manage one more sack...