Re: Gardens in Winter
Margaret,
What do the Oregon Juncoes look like?
Connie
margaret lauterbach wrote:
> At 02:32 PM 12/19/1999 EST, you wrote:
> >all I have showing is some of the tall grasses that tend to look well dried
> >that I didn't get around to cutting
> >
> >most everything else has already been trimmed back as we normally have snow
> >by now this year has been warm and some of the plants {lady's mantle and
> >some of the iris} are confused, everything else is sound asleep
> >
> >zone 4 Maine
> >
> My garden plants are not cut back, and that's just the way the Oregon
> juncoes like it. The herb beds look especially ratty, but the juncoes don't
> eat bird food we put out, instead preferring to help themselves to
> agastache, echinacea, sorrel and other seeds. Therefore we cut back in the
> spring when we have a zillion other things to do, too. Margaret L
