Take a break from the pre-holiday hustle and bustle! Sit in a comfy chair with a hot drink and mull over the condition of your garden/landscape before the snow hides all your memories.
What worked? What didn’t? What will you move in the spring? Where are the holes you’ll need to fill in? How has your life changed – or the way you use your yard changed – that will result in additions and deletions to your landscape? The new catalogs begin arriving in late January and a few notes now will go a long way!
When we have a bit more snow cover, notice the paths the rabbits and squirrels take through the snow. Where are they hiding? Do you want to provide food and water for them and for the birds? At the BOD residence, we keep our waterfall running as long into the winter as we can. Rabbit (the one who lives under our deck) knows this and has been looking for the flowing water under the snow.
Write a few notes and send them to me for safekeeping, and then put your garden firmly to bed until after the holidays!
Stay warm! Jane
