Garden Report

Recently the musicians of Barcelona found themselves practicing for a group of not people, but plants recently! As they prepared to reopen, they decided to perform for a room full of plants for their rehearsal performance. Afterward they decided to give the plants to people as a donation to health care workers.

This is such a cute iea that it makes me wonder if people in the United States might do the same. Unfortunately much of the U.S is operating as normal, so it's hard to say. I wonder if the music helped the plants grow? 

What do you think? 

If 2020 saw a rise in gardening across the nation, 2021 will likely only see even more gardening take place. I'm predicting lots of funky and weird ideas as creative people stay home and try to find new ways to have fun. I'm already doing some pretty weird stuff in my garden arena this year!

We cut up our Christmas tree and made a bunch of tiny evergreens in our outdoor pots! It looks so cute and people who've passed asked where we got the little trees! Sure, they will die eventually, but for now they are green and pretty. I also painted my own pea gravel! I didn't like the color so I went with black and made a new, bold look in our rock garden.

How about you? Any weird gardening ideas for the new year? 

Our Douglas Fir is collapsing on itself. We got our tree late in the game and had to pick from the bottom of the barrel, and the tree was already not the top choice. It's also not my favorite kind of tree; I'd much rather get a Frasier Fir. But since I have all of these falling branches at my disposal, I've been slowly chopping them off and using them to create cute greenery displays in my pots outside!

Yeah, it's a little weird, at least for me, but it's 2020. Why not? I've also sprayed a few dead plants silver and made them look really festive! They could definitely still be used for New Year's decorations. But in terms of the garden itself, I don't do a lot in January, especially since I don't keep a winter garden. That said, we've been saving some windows to make a little greenhouse for that purpose, so I thought I'd find out what tasks you do in the winter time.

What winter chores, prep or other work do you do in your garden?

There are around 15 million real Christmas trees sold every year and some people estimate that this year there will be even more sold as local farms run out weeks before Christmas. But there are also lots of people who make gorgeous tree swags, wreaths or even decorate real trees in their own yards, and I love it all!

There are so many different styles and every year it seems there are cool new trends to check out. Flocked trees, which are trees with their ends covered in snow, are big this year. Did you know you can make this look with a real tree by brushing on artificial snow powder with water?

How are you decorating your evergreens this year? I'd love to hear about them in the chat.