Snow and Amaryllis

A perfect combination

Today ’s photos are from Suzanne Stewart in Glenwood Springs Colorado . In August , she sharedsome photos of her garden in the summertime , and today she ’s partake in some images showing the wondrous wintertime wonderland she has this class . If you compare her summer injection with these , you ’ll see that she took some from the same angles , so you may really see how the garden exchange with the time of year . While her garden may not be beautiful to our eyes in the wintertime , she also makes sure it is full of a spate of food for the birds and other wildlife to serve keep them go through the farsighted , cold months . And inside , she ’s made a little flowery promised land for herself to savor until spring arrives .

Suzanne does n’t burn back her echinaceas in the twilight , so the birds can enjoy the seed heads . unluckily , the cervid revel the blue fescue , although the plants unremarkably bounce back in the spring .

The mass views are perhaps even more beautiful wreathed in coke .

The red - copper leaves in the fall are Suzanne ’s favorite part of this prize barberry ( Berberis thunbergii , zone 5–8 ) . Those have faded , but some berry have hung on for wintertime pastime and to provide snacks for the birds .

Even Suzanne ’s beautiful blue - patinise female Buddha is happy to see the nose candy !

A thought of the house wrapped in snow .

ill-use inside the house , out of the snow-white coldness , and visit the personal winter amaryllis fete happening in Suzanne ’s south - confront kitchen windowpane . ( We ’ve catch a guide to reblooming your amaryllishereif you require flowers like this on your windowsill every wintertime . )

A detail of these beautiful flowering bulb . . .

. . . and the promise of more flowers on the way — much like the promise of the beautiful outflow that will eventually arrive outdoors where it is all snow right on now .

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