Pacific Northwest Gardening: January pics - spring is wispering, 0 by Rarejem

Rarejem wrote:
Mstish, I am really glad that you started this thread! I have really missed the photo threads, and was tempted to start my own this week because I am really really ready for the garden to be dry and alive again!

My daphne's also lost most of their leaves on their own, but are full of new buds. I had asked for advice on pruning them last year, but then was never brave enough to follow through. I will have to this year as a couple are encroaching on some of their neighbors, but I will wait until they are blooming and then bring the blooms from the pruned brances inside (popping one or two in the cloner I bet...just to try!)

This last weekend was beautiful (IE over 45 and it didn't rain too much) so I spent it playing outside. Only a gardener can appreciate how satisfying it is to clean out a garden, chop leaves for mulch (hopefully chopping lots of slugs hiding in the leaves in the process) and seeing the end result... a garden ready to spring back to life!

This is the result of my cleaning and mulching this weekend...it would be a lot more satisfying if it was even a scratch in the surface of the garden cleanup needing to be done, but it made me feel really good to see at least one clean and mulched bed.