The Yard in Winter

 At the beginning of this week we had our big freeze of the year.  This often happens only once each winter, but, when it does, we feel it.

The banana trees are now instantly dead as are the impatiens, the geraniums, and all the other blooming things we had been enjoying in this extended season.

So, now it is time to clean out all the flower beds and start new ones for the coming spring.  

The first little noses of 200 daffodil bulbs are starting to poke out of the big bed on the left.  The other beds have been getting compost worked into them for the plants that will come along later.

In the garage garden room there are already plants coming up getting ready for those spaces.

Our safe time for setting out things here comes around  the first week of March.  By then we should have several hundred plants ready to go.  Doing this helps us get through the winter!