No such thing, that is, unless you can't find a place to plant them. That's the problem with getting these catalogs in the mail on a grey, dull January day. It leads to some serious impulse shopping.
These lily bulbs are for spring planting, although I prefer getting them in the ground in the fall. The roots get a head start during our mild winter. And before I cut back the garden, it's a easier to shoe-horn them in without slicing through the current lily inhabitants.
Well, of course that didn't deter me. I ordered nine new lily bulbs, plus a bag of Dutch iris. John had his heart set on "Miss Peculiar" a lily tree that grows to 8 feet, or some ridiculous height. He likes tall girls. The lily breeders went nuts in the past 20 years. What a catalog. Not long ago, it was just a few varieties of Orientals, Trumpets and Tigers to choose from.
We keep waiting for a true cold spell and hard freeze, but it just doesn't materialize. There was some talk of slushy snow in the lowlands next week, but with daytime temperatures in the 40's it won't amount to much. Tonight will be the coldest in quite in a while though, down to about 30 in Seattle.
Up in the mountains and on the other side of the state, they've had a bonanza of snow. That's a good thing, because mountain snow provides our summer city water supply.
This looks like the Arctic Circle, but it's an igloo built by friends of Amanda and Tom in their Methow Valley yard. The families gathered this week for a birthday party outdoors. A frozen world away from our emerald city, where everything is already starting to bud and grow.
Another weekend without any plans, but that's just fine. The whole country feels exhausted.
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