Cait's Garden

Look at those beautiful pansies. In the photo, I mean, because the ones I just planted last weekend don’t look anything like that yet. It’s exhilarating, yet trying, potting the first flowers of spring. Frosts aren’t the issue. For me, it’s the wildlife. Squirrels have been digging in my large pots of pansies by the front door, uprooting the plants completely. And this charming planter in the photo? Its flowers have been eaten by a woodchuck. If I can keep these flowers whole for a few more weeks, I will be in the clear. But now, it’s a comical battle.

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Here it is, March 2, and I hope to be making my final post of the winter season. (Or at least my last intentionally wintery post.) You hear the term “winter interest” often on gardening shows and in magazines. I think I’ve got that one covered, just by being lazy and not cutting down my perennials. Well, actually it’s good to keep the foliage on your plants over the winter to provide protection, so there is method behind my sloth.  And when the snow falls just right, it sticks in a quite lovely way to the seed heads of all those coneflowers I have. In the photo, you’ll see those, a very pretty dried out caryopteris (blue mist shrub) and a few bits of aster and coreopsis. Looks pretty nice, huh? Imagine how great it will look when it’s green again!

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