Janie....those miles south are a world of difference. We've been unseasonably cold this winter and even in New Jersey, my garden has been buried for the last month. The last two days the sun has shone and we've gotten to the mid 40's so I can see the garden again, but it's still patchy ice and shadowed snow. I 've got a slackers garden this winter...those bugs distracted me in the fall, and I never cleaned up the garden... So I've got tansy stalks and coneflower,and rudbeckia still standing tall against the stark winter landscape. Once It warms a bit, I'll slowly begin clipping, that could be done before mud season clears. But it'll be the end of March (or April) before I'm where you are now.

Sighing Whistfully...

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