Tag: amaryllis

Every day it seemed that the alternation of warm days and freezing nights would end; nights would moderate, allowing the ground to thaw.

Walking the snowy path to the woodshed when the temperature was 12 degrees below zero, with added 20-miles-per-hour winds, I quickly sensed the sting of cold on my legs through usually reliable layers of fine wool leggings underneath heavy wool trousers.

Rather than discarding amaryllis bulbs after their winter blooms fade, keep the plants growing and blooming from year to year.

Letting go of the garden – and the garden letting go of me – has seemed imminent for weeks!