The Dry Garden

Medical Alert- Worse than Bedbugs

What is a calorie?

 

Calories are the little bastards that get into your wardrobe at

night and sew your clothes tighter. 

 

MY CLOSET IS INFESTED WITH THE LITTLE DEVILS.

 

 

Awful, Awful Weather

It's cold and wet and, in spite of the drains the Gardener put in, we have puddles lying in the yard:

The 80 F  weather we had (can it be only 10 days ago?) brought the cherry plum trees into flower

but I doubt we'll get much fruit this year because the bees aren't about yet.

 

It Isn't Usually Like This

When I first moved to Northern California, I discovered that whatever the weather was like people said, "It isn't usually like this."  Now I find I say the same thing myself and what's more it's always true.

Ten days ago, we had temperatures in the 80s, which is, to say the least of it, unusual at this time of year. 

As a result many things are flowering in the Dry Garden:

Lovely, scented Daphne

 

Thyme

 

Rosemary

Spring is Coming

We're having frosty nights but:

the magnolia's coming into bloom

the manzanita's in flower, and

daffodils are out.

Planting

The Gardener planted:

A Greengage

A Pluot

 

A Kaeffer Pear

A Magness Pear

 The fruit trees all came from www.treesofantiquity.com

In imagination, I see the trees espaliered and laden with fruit.