WINTER REST
While winter dumped two feet on our home in Bristow at the southern end of Northern Virginia…
…my son received at least three feet at Patrick Henry College thirty-seven miles north of us in the northern part of Northern Virginia, near West Virginia. Here are some impressive pictures he took that he sent to me…
While snowball fighting with his classmates, he lost his phone, which was eventually found in all the snow a few days later…and it still worked!
Meanwhile I happily baked gingerbread snowflakes and sledded with my daughter, who couldn’t get to her college classes, because we were snowed in when the plows forgot to clear our end of the neighborhood.
After they got the news and dug us out, after I drove up to meet my son at college to drop off some tech supplies he needed that we had at home.
While there I experienced the massive remnants from the blizzard that hit seven days earlier!
Then we got more snow in February! Love the 18th century styled ha-ha walls across the street!
SPRING ARRIVES
Eventually, spring arrived in late March, allowing my previous plantings of perennials to spring with joy!
By early May, more previous perennials happily sprung up!
SUMMER PROFUSION OF BLOOMS
While living in San Antonio, I planted my summer flowers around Easter, I needed to change my gardening schedule when I moved to Virginia.
Although our last official freeze date in Northern Virginia is mid-April, it can continue to be very cold for another month.
Thus, during Memorial Day weekend, I happily get started on my summer garden.
Shopping at my favorite nursery, Merrifield Garden Center, I always find amazing summer plantings for my garden.
While the annuals are planted into pots, the perennials are planted in the garden beds.
Although perennials are more expensive than annuals, perennials return each year, so for the same amount of money I’m saving myself a lot of time while enlarging my garden with new options!
By June, more past plantings of perennials bloomed.
In the summer heat of July and August, my potted flowers are going strong!
