Re New Year's Day Plant Count

**J* D* <j*@xcountry.tv>**

Happy New Year, all! Finally, after nearly a year of membership....I  
figured out why I couldn't post to this list. Duh to me for having  
several email addresses, one of which forwards to my main one. Must  
be the heaps of snow clouding my brain.

As I wanted to post some months back, but never did because I didn't  
see the puzzle through--this organization has been invaluable to me  
over the past 11 months or so that I've been a returned member. A few  
years ago I joined for a year and wasn't impressed; but this listserv  
is worth the price of membership in the intelligent discussion and  
information that gets passed around. So thank you to all the regular  
participants who are so generous with sharing information.

And on that....what's in bloom in our garden? Well, there WAS a  
wallflower on Christmas Eve, I saw it as I tucked the last of the  
bulbs in during a rare melt; but now, we have something in excess of  
three feet of snow over most of the beds, and more scheduled to come  
to beautiful Nova Scotia. I don't think death to perennials like  
ericas and callunas  from lack of snow cover is going to be an issue  
this winter, the way it was for many last year. Far from it.

Indoors, we have festivals of houseplants from poinsettias to  
cyclamen to amaryllis to a defiant phalaenopsis orchid...and plenty  
of planning for the coming spring, of course.

cheers, jodi

Jodi DeLong, MA
“Atlantic Canada’s Garden Writer”
Member, Garden Writers Association (GWA)
My online resume: www.bloomingwriter.ca
My Gardening blog: bloomingwriter.blogspot.com

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