The Colorful Winter Garden

It is Bloom Day and I have no flowers. I have flower buds on an inside orchid. No need to despair. I have a winter garden filled with color. It is more than enough to take me to the first blooms of a new year with the snowdrops. That could be next month, weathers depending. Let's go for a ride in the garden.

In the barren time, green is a color. I'm still working on some additions in the shade of the forest. Big yellow pots are color too.

The winter garden is coming along. I do have to say this is the slowest garden I have ever grown in my life. Everything I have planted starts small. Rooted twigs and sticks are easy to come by.

Green is not the only color you can have in a winter garden. Plenty other colors to choose from. So I did.

Eleven years later, the under garden of winter is filling in. I told you it was slow. And there have been some failures along the way. I keep planting.

Lines of color slowly grow across barren winter ground.

It draws me outside.

Where the Japanese Holiday Tree is in full bloom. The lights turn on in the sunshine. It is a different kind of bloom.