Thursday, 15th of December 2022
(started: Sunday, 11th of December 2022)
Hello #HiveGarden community. I’ve been lurking around here and reading some of your amazing posts, but I haven’t really posted anything since I joined at the end of October. Partly because it takes me a while to find my ways around Hive and partly cause my garden at this time of a year is not particularly exciting.
Reading some of your posts though I realised that I could post about my indoor garden too, so that’s an idea for some future posts. Today however I will be sharing some captures from my winter garden. We’ve had some frost most of this week and being home at the weekend I can actually see my garden in the daylight and it looks much more exciting, covered in white frost.
Let me start with a sneaky peak through my kitchen window. Yes, I totally wanna flex my Christmas cactus! I currently have 2 of these beauties and I’m totally mesmerised by the intricate flowers on them. I have a pink one that I stole a cutting from my grandmother’s place in Poland last year and this red one that I picked from Lidl this year. I’m excited to see both of them in bloom 😍
Into the #garden we move! At the doorstep I almost trip over something! Remember those bulbs I mentioned in one of my articles? Well, #Consuela didn’t managed to plant them, so they’re still here, laying by my back door, which btw was surrounded by this lovely, bright green climbing plant that I can’t remember the name of.
It crossed my mind to plant them last weekend, but the power of planting anything in my garden was taken away from me by mighty weather. Please admit that it is a brilliant excuse!
Next is my fairy in the garden. It’s very old and battered, but I simply adore her. Today it strikes me why - cause she reminds me of myself. Sitting there with her legs half crossed, her face resting on her hand and staring into the abyss. That is my favourite position to sit in the garden too.
Well, surprise, surprise! Today she’s levitating on top of the water in this glass vase. I bet she’s feeling mighty powerful being able to do this, but judging by her face she couldn’t care less.
There is not much still alive in the garden, but whatever is !alive is covered with a romantic layer of white frost. It always baffles me how succulents that love the sun and heat are also tough enough to survive winter. Pretty cold one this year!
And here is my baby avocado tree. It’s one of those things that I read about, got excited about doing it and then never followed up. I eat Avocado regularly and it wouldn’t make much effort to plant it, but I always forget. This one I threw in my mini composting bin last year and this year as I was clearing the growth, I pulled this little tree and realised it was avocado 🥑 , so I planted it in its own pot. I highly doubt that it will survive this winter. Oh well, easy come, easy go I guess.
Frozen bottles of water anyone? I have plenty of those, ready for watering my garden on hot days. Luckily I won’t need them for good few months 😉
How about frozen flowers? There is a certain appeal to frosty… anything really, at least for me. These flowers decided to bloom way out of season, as we had pretty warm November and now I bet they regret showing their head. They myst be freezing… quite literally!
In search of this beautiful frost I walked around my garden in my flip flops as if I wasn’t old enough to know it’s a silly behaviour. Not like you can do much to stop your inner child from having fun.
So we found frosty red currants leaves above and frosty pink rose bush leaves below.
In my not so hanging baskets I have those white (can’t remember the name) flowers that I must get more of when I next visit nursery. I expected it to die back, just like all my annuals in hanging baskets, but no, it has no plans of dying yet. It already survived one winter and now onto its second one. If it survives this one, it sure deserves a medal 🎖
Frost made even my lawn look pretty. Check it out! My usual boring grass looks like a fancy variegated type. I wouldn’t mind it staying like this forever and ever 😅
There are some flowers that enjoy the winter though. Cyclamens are among those. In the past I always managed to kill them during summer months, but once a had a chat with a nice lady at the nursery and she told me they really love being in the shade during the summer. Since then I moved the still alive cyclamens to a more shaded areas of my garden and I finally managed to keep a few of them alive during summer.
I simply adore a splash of colour they provide during cold winter months when not much else is in bloom.
Stay with me for just a minute longer please. Let’s have a look at my frog! Once I photographed my fairy on top of the glass vase, it was frog’s turn for a session. Fairy has some electrical wires for solar lights inside her, so I didn’t wanna get those soaked, but frog really didn’t mind.
He was a bit shocked when the water melted and he dropped into the water.
Even more shocked when the water soaked again and he realised he is trapped! His surprised eyes make me smile whenever I look at him 😁
And finally… let me offer you some frozen tea ☕️
One of my past lodgers threw away this beautiful cup, as it was a bit cracked on the side. Me being me, I took it out of the glass recycling bin and I placed it on this saucer. I knew a day will come when I’ll take a pretty picture of it and last weekend was that day. It’s a dry mixed leaves tea if you ask 😉
Until next time 💙
| Camera: | iPhone11 |
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| Photographer: |  @fantagira |
