None of us are ready to see the temperatures plunge into the 20s but get braced - it is coming! There is so much in the December garden preparing for spring - seed pods ready to burst open as well as buds forming on our spring beauties. Daphne, Edgeworthia and other winter bloomers are also preparing for their show.

"At the heart of gardening there is a belief in the miraculous."
Mirabel Osler, British author, gardener

Rich colors of the hydrangea adding to the autumn reds

Edgeworthia blooms forming - such heavenly fragrance

Fatsia Japonica blooming in December

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. " John Ruskin, British writer, art critic (born 2/8/1819)

Dried hydrangea blooms adding their rich color

Rhododendrum buds forming
'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart. A good garden cannot be made by somebody who has not developed the capacity to know and love growing things. (from "The Education of a Gardener" 1962)
Russell Page, British garden designer, writer
"The fair-weather gardener, who will do nothing except when the wind and weather and everything else are favorable, is never master of his craft."
(Henry Ellacombe, 19th century British gardener, writer)

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