Winter gardening Forever, I have loved the tiny flowered Johnny Jump Ups, Viola tricolor, which seed themselves happily around the garden. You can plant any violas or pansies from October to December for a head start on Spring! They bloom right through the snow! “The sweetness of the Violets deep blue eyes, Kissed by the…
What you and I can do now in the Sierra foothills:
Christmas shop!
Christmas trees are at our local Western Sierra Nursery right now and as an added bonus, owner, Mark Holland, will be serving from his cauldron of chili most every day to shoppers buying bulbs, bare root veggies and violas, all of which are in plentiful supply. Be sure to check out the three huge bins of ‘Ugly Plant Sale’ in the back near the evergreen trees.
Mark Holland serves chili at the Western Sierra Nursery
Try Deer resistant shrubs…
