Bumble bee on a rhododendron..
TOTAL COOLNESS!!!
Winter’s Garden Damage
We haven’t been able to see our Brooklyn garden since December 26th when it was covered by well over three feet of snow. Several more feet of snow has since fallen on it. This week the snow melted to the point where we can see the damage that all of that heavy snow did to it.
The rhododendron that we rescued a decade ago when the telephone company ripped it out of the ground sans roots, nursed back to health, and then grew a healthy umbrella of branches, now looks like this…
All of the branches have been torn away. This is a similar story with our azalea…
One of our conifers whose name has long since slipped from our mind is broken as well…
But that break might leave it in better shape than its twin, which is completely flattened and is still under several inches of snow.
It sure was one heck of a winter, and we’re glad that the worst seems to be over for our neck of the world, until next winter. But there’s good news…
The spring flowers are bursting up through the earth and the circle of life continues… TOTAL COOLNESS!!!
Chrysanthemum Daisies
We’ve had enough of winter, of shoveling snow, of walking on icy sidewalks, of freezing cold temperatures that bite our skin and the lack of daylight hours. We’re ready for spring. We’re ready for this…
Chrysanthemum Daisies from our garden… TOTAL COOLNESS!!!
Tree Porn: Snuff – Death Of A Weeping Willow
The giant weeping willow that graced the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is no more.
Here it is during happier times.
We noticed the death at the beginning of the Blizzard of 2010, so it wasn’t this past storm that took it out.
We know that the garden had tried to save it several years back, but there must not have been anything else that they could have done to keep it up. Gone is the “secret” spot that it created by the tiny bridge that many either laid out on or read a book at.
Brooklyn Figs
This is merely one of the many perks that comes from being friendly to neighbors: FIGS!
We believe that it was Aristotle, or that it at the very least should have been Aristotle to say, “Never make an enemy of a man who has two fig trees growing in his garden.”