Good morning, and it's coming. Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.
Here in Denver, temperatures have dropped into the more typical ranges of highs in the 40s and lows in the 20s — although we have had a couple of days when we topped 50°.
The big moisture-dumping storms other areas of the country have experienced are missing us; over the next couple of days, snow is predicted for the mountains, but down here on the plains over the weekend we'll get wind instead... lots and lots of wind. By mid-week, highs are forecast to drop into the 30s, and we may get some snow late in the week. It is January, after all.
But we are out of the Dark Time: sunset isn't occurring until after 5:00 p.m., and soon the sun will rise before 7:00. My lizard brain knows that, although it's still a month before I can hope to see bulbs blooming, the growing season is coming.
I bought this pretty Christmas cactus a couple of weeks ago. The blossoms start out salmon, turning fuchsia as they age.
I love the way hyacinth roots look threaded amongst these blue glass gems.
Yesterday the postal carrier brought me a box full of goodies from Missy's Brother — yes, he paid off his bet in inimitable Missy's Brother style (and now possesses the secret of how I manage to post at 7:00:00 Mountain Time on a pretty consistent basis). No welcher is he (and why is it that "welcher" hasn't joined the list of verboten usages such as "niggardly" and "GBCW"? That must make Catherine Zeta-Jones and Prince Charles cry). Not only was there a lovely Victorian era hyacinth vase, but a mushroom cookbook (I do love 'shrooms), a book of pootie poetry, two hyacinth-bulb shaped candles, a pack of cat-grass seed and — just for Caligula — bubble wrap to steal.
It's only about six weeks until time to plant the cool-weather crops, so only a couple of weeks until I start sprouting the pea seeds. Which reminds me — I need to order the sugar sprint peas from Territorial. Plus Territorial has a bush-style delicata squash which I think will solve some of my space problems.
I have a huge stack of garden porn which I'm kinda sorta afraid of going through because there is just too much stuff I'd really really really like to order but I really really really really really don't (1) need or (2) have room for. It's likely I'll succumb to temptation, though — I always do, and always manage to find room for it all.
That's what's happening here. What's going on in your gardens?