Winter colors

Spent a few hours at the UW Retirees Garden Club meeting, held on the grounds of the UW Botanical Gardens/Urban Horticulture Center.  The majority of the plantings were cut back for the winter, but this rosebud was striking in the cold and blue of the day.  We heard a lecture about winter color in the garden and if it ever warms up I'm going to do some planting.  She gave us lots of suggestions for things to plant to bring color into a winter garden and I'm excited to try at least one new thing.

“Winter garden,
the moon thinned to a thread,
insects singing.” 

― Bashō Matsuo

“They say you only really appreciate a garden once you reach a certain age, and I suppose there is a truth in that. It’s probably something to do with the great circle of life. There seems to be something miraculous about seeing the relentless optimism of new growth after the bleakness of winter, a kind of joy in the difference every year, the way nature chooses to show off different parts of the garden to its full advantage.” 

― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You