January was a month of extremes. We had near-freezing temperatures as our highs, lots of rain, no rain for several days and temperatures in the upper sixties.
The garden has done very well this winter, especially since we've not had anything like that hurricane-strength windstorm this time last year.
The cleomes in the front yard continue to grow and send off new flower stalks, the tallest plant about five-and-a-half feet tall.
In the fride (FRont sIDE) garden, one hollyhock and lots of purple stock are in bloom. Columbines, crocuses, a foxglove, anomones and hyacinths are also charging up in this garden with partial sun to bloom in the next month or so.
Hanging in a pot from the fence above the hot tub is a purple sweet pea that continues to go into bloom. Most of the plant looks completely dead, but it somehow still has a shoot still in flower. I planted this sweet pea in the summer, 2008, and it shows no signs of giving up yet. The little flower even smells great.
If you look closely at the hanging pot, you can see two winter sweet pea seedlings poking up. I planted them about a month or so ago.
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