January 25th.  One more week and January is history.  I’m not a winter person at all, so January and February (especially February) can’t go too fast for me.  During the other months I am continually saying, “Slow Down!”  But this month and next I am saying, “Hurry up already!”

Seed catalogs are piling up; they are my winter salvation.  All those beautiful flowers and succulent vegetables!  This will finally be the year when the weeds and the bugs and the #@*! deer won’t get them.  The season is ripe with possibility!  All gardeners are, by their very nature, optimists.

At the garden center we are still ordering and redecorating– plants don’t begin to come in for another few weeks.  (And I’m certainly glad of that when I look at the nighttime temperatures and my propane bills!)  Our landscape team, Dawn and Chris, attended talks about landscaping at the recent CENTS show, and got some new great ideas.  Dawn has already done a We Plan/You Plant visit this year.

Written by Lynn on the slope of Teasel Hill where it is cold and the ground is covered with a light layer of snow.