Re: New Year's Day Plant count

**"* B* <g*@netsurfusa.net>**

>From the mid-West in southern Indiana (but not so far south as to find palm 
trees along the Ohio river)
    Soil is frozen in the garden, temps are in the teens and the wind chill 
makes it about minus 5 with no snow cover.
    Only blooms are on Hellebore foetidus. Bright green over dark olive 
green is not bad when all else is some shade of brown. My favorite color is 
the bed of creeping wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Dark, rich green 
leaves covering the pine needle mulch with scarlet red, waxy, berries in 
abundance. Cardinal Candy vibrunum still had balls of clustered, well, 
cardinal red berries. The cedar wax wings has stripped the deciduous hollies 
of their berries. Colorado blue spruce Hoopsi with red twig dogwood and gold 
twig dogwood is not bad either.
    It will warm up late this week and by mid week next there will be 
hellebore an perhaps snowdrops in bloom.
Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
www.munchkinnursery.com
genebush@munchkinnursery.com
Zone 6/5  Southern Indiana

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Saxon Holt" <sholt@saxonholt.com>
Subject: [GWL] New Year's Day Plant count


> Inspired by a Janet Sanchez, a garden writer friend, I am doing a New
> Year's Day flower count in my garden and writing about it on my
> Gardening Gone Wild blog http://www.gardeninggonewild.com/ .  It would
> be fun to see what others have blooming.  I know I am blessed in zone 9
> and those in cold climates may have zero to report but it still would
> be interesting to see what else is happening around the country.  Maybe
> we can make this annual event.
> This is not a competition just a unscientific survey.  What is in your
> garden today?  Answer off line on the blog, not on this list.
> Saxon Holt
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