Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Jan. 24

Hope everyone in the paths of the big storms is safe and warm. In your honor, some frosty photos from HalDallMD:

Hoarfrost on our trees. Had ice on everything for a few days.

Fascinating photos. How close in appearance is that hoarfrost to the ice and snow in the big storms?

And to give everyone some hope:

The rosemary bush is blooming. Even a few honeybees on it. Pictures will follow because I am not computer savvy. NorCal Sierra Foothills Lurker

Gorgeous! What a brave little bee!

Our rosemary isn't blooming yet. We have FOG.

Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

The lettuce bolted and the seeds went all over the place. Now we have volunteers of winter lettuce when the summer was too hot for them to grow .

Nan in AZ

Wonderful! I see some other things coming along, too!

Ah, Nature

WINTER TIPS OR ALERTS FOR THOSE HOLED UP IN STORMY WEATHER?

Recipes that don't require heating? I always go back to bean salads.

Gardens of The Horde

MIRACULOUS RECOVERY

Hi KT.

Here is a Christmas cactus that was never particularly energetic, but did its thing each year out on the front porch. Last year, the deer shredded it mercilessly , down to soil level. There was no green left at all.

I sadly brought it into the sunroom hoping for the best, and look! It has recovered well, and is blooming now, probably better than it ever has before.
The Amaryllis next to it doesn’t like me though. It has never bloomed and has always looked pitiful.

Any suggestions are welcome. I just hope it’s not too late…
Thanks for your wonderful Garden threads and essays. Keep up the great work.

Gunslinger.

Wonderful to see a miracle like that! Those little buds are charming.

Any suggestions for the Amaryllis?

There's not much gardening happening outside here in snowy New Hampshire.

Audrey the Aloe Plant seems to be doing well inside although she stares out the window and wishes for warmer weather so she can go out and play. Even though Christmas is over I'm keeping the festive squirrel lights on her to try to cheer her up and play her lots of the classics like Marvin Gaye and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Thank you for all the wonderful weekend gardening and pet threads and other posts.

Best wishes to you and yours and everyone at the Ace.

Rodent

Audrey is lovely! Looks like she enjoys the music and festive squirrel lights.

Hope everyone has a nice, or at least bearable, weekend.

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Week in Review

What has changed since last week's thread? Check out the late comments. Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Jan 17

Any thoughts or questions?

I closed the comments on that post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.

posted by K.T. at 01:24 PM

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