We had a little taste of Christmas magic this week here in Pennsylvania. We had a couple of mornings where we had snow flurries and it was wonderful to see that in the garden and it’s just so pretty.
The ground isn’t frozen and if I had the energy, I could actually plant more shrubs but I think I’m done digging for the year.
I have been doing some decorating outside and will attempt to finish the inside over the weekend. I have gotten some bulbs planted and I have 27 amaryllis bulbs still in the basement. I have to figure out how to cycle them through the house as they start to push new growth which is a check once because there are only so many spots you can put amaryllis bulbs!!
Now is the time you can start feeding your birds. I do not feed the deer. The foxes feed themselves by hunting small rodents and other things in the woods.
The deer are proving to be a challenge, which is why even in the winter I have to keep spraying deer repellent.
The winter season in your garden has a beauty all of its own. As I have said many times before it’s more of a structural view. And that can be helpful deciding on what you want to do as soon as spring rolls around. however, until I get to spring, I still have a couple of December roses.
This will probably be my last post of the year. Thank you for following along with my garden. I am very appreciative of that.
Dreaming of growing seasons yet to come…
the nightgown gardener 
Happiest of holidays to you! Loved all your gardening posts and philosophizing this past year! Would love to see your amaryllis collection on display and to learn a little about how you manage them all throughout the year. Enjoy your short rest period before spring!
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I just let them grow here and there. I don’t have an amaryllis collection per se, because I don’t have the kind of space to display them like that. So as the bulbs start to push new growth, I bring a pot up from the basement and I put it somewhere and it grows. What happens the rest of the year is they go outside in the summer and they love the deck and they can take some sun and they just grow and they stay outside until the first frost and then I cut them off and into the basement they go.
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