Making progress

Several mild days have encouraged me to get out to divide and transplant crested irises, two orchid varieties, black mondo grass, disporopsis, hellebores, and a few others into the expansion of the front garden border that was begun in December. The front of the border was long ignored and difficult to see from the road…

I’ll figure it out

A tiny daphne (Daphne x napolitana ‘Stasek’, below) is flowering in early February in a crevice between granite boulders in the small rock garden. Until a few days ago, this was covered by snow, and today, I saw the flowers only by pushing aside the browned foliage of a vigorous pennstemon. The two plants were…