The Garden of Bogturtle

   My daughter moved most of the Christmas and Thanksgiving Cacti, and one African Violet, to this dining table, and are really thriving. Surprised that the Violet is budding again. Edgeworthia chrysantha will bloom with fragrant flowers in Spring, and will hold these silvery buds. Makes the plant attractive all Winter.  The green stems of the Kerria are very different in the gray Winter.  Easy to find lots of colorful decorations for the little landing. In the long window box, on the landing, are twigs of the silvery blue Arizona Cypress 'Blue Ice', some Holly and twigs of the red Colored Bark Dogwood.  More interesting than attractive, the Siberian Cypress, Microbiota discussata turns rust colored for Winter. An evergreen, supposedy, but so is the southern Swamp Cypress and the Tamarack tree from the North. They both turn yellow or amber for Winter, I believe.  I may post, here, a photo of the magnificent display Longwood Gardens somehow manages, of this ...