Garden Pic Wednesday: Dressed up Holly!
After several days of gray cold gloom, I was quite happy to see sunny days again today and yesterday! I actually went outside today. I wanted to water my containers and some of the newly bulb planted areas in front bed with Miracle-gro. Also the garden veggies. Broccoli is just starting to head. I walk around and see so much growth---everything that blooms in the spring is poling up it's greenery right now to energize from the winter sun: Dutch Iris, Easter Lilies & Daffodils greens so far. Today's Garden Pic is my Oakland Holly all decorated up for Christmas! It's about 4 feet tall now. I had a box of unused plastic ornaments and bought two strings of 50 light battery lights. Those are genius. No worries running extension wires to power anything. Once turned on, an auto-timer runs it a few hours nightly. This Holly was bred for the Southern climate. It's self-pollinating. The berries are edible for birds. It doesn't grow overly tall.