Finding Color in the Cold

Here’s my formula for getting through winter when it isn’t even officially winter yet: root through seed catalogs, make rough drafts of seed orders, and imagine wildflower drifts.  In the meantime, there are isolated instances of colorful life outside and in.  When you’re desperate, it’s amazing what you come up with.

You’re allowed to cheat:

I scrounged up this colorful bouquet of leaves, berries, edible greens, and a few flower survivors:

I think these are red Cos romaine leaves surviving from last spring:

 

Red Russian kale with contrasting India mustard are hardy into winter:

Back to semi-dormancy.

 

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