... but I'm having a hard time with it! This is the advice of all our local growers, horticulturists, and people who know, but dang it, I love the luscious greens and I'm saddened every time I look outside. Just can't seem to learn to love the ugly. And this overcast weather is not helping either!
Call me cranky and grumpy today!
Call me cranky and grumpy today!
So tell me this doesn't make you feel sad. Plus all the work to rake this all up and the cost of replanting!
Do you see those spots of green, those are our pigmy palms. The larger of the two, was wrapped in two Christmas lights nets and then covered with a duvet. The littlest one, just peeking above the rocks, was covered with one of the Christmas lights net and also covered with a small duvet. I wish I could have done that to all of my plants and palms. We did cover them, but I ran out of Christmas lights and at this time of the year, there were none to be found anywhere.
Out of my 6 large pots, only two survived. These are the azaleas which are blooming :-) Now there is a happy sight in the middle of all this ugly :-) The little pots, some survived, most have been replanted. I just needed some green :-) All these pots were put on the patio and covered with blankets.
As you can see, it's just brown everywhere you look. Even when you look over the fences at the neighbour's gardens, all you see is brown.
This is why they are saying to love the ugly for now instead of just raking everything up. Some might still sprout and grow. This is my little apple tree. It sure brings joy to see all these beautiful blooms.
I know a lot of you experience ice and snow during the winter months and wait for Spring for everything to come to life again and I bet your gardens look beautiful then. But we are not used to having this. My garden stays green all year 'round. We have a lot of tropical plants and evergreens, so it's just sad to see it all brown and dead. Most of the "brown" plants are dead and we fear that most of our palms are too.
I learnt something with all this - if the brown leaves are falling, then there is a good chance that the plant is still alive. If the brown leaves do not fall, then the plant is most likely dead. I keep wishing all the leaves fall :-)
On a happier note, my fairy garden is doing well. I just need to replace the moss here and there to bring a little bit of green to it. I think I will also replace the mushrooms. They're looking very sun bleached. We actually brought it inside during those icy days, the reason it survived, I believe.
Anyway, just thought I would share the after effects of Uri.
The experts are saying that this only happens once in a lifetime, here in Southern Texas, so we should be good to go :-)
Enjoy your day, and stay safe and healthy!
