Hi, my dear friends!
It's the second of January. It seems that there is still a lot of time ahead, but in fact it is time to plan the garden and flower beds. But today I would like to remember how my garden changed last year and what changes have occurred to nature in general.
I have selected twelve photos in my photo album that correspond to each of the months of this year.
So, January. Now it seems to me that it was a normal snowy January. How deceptive our memory is and how it relates to stereotypes! But the photos tell me that everything was wrong. January was warm and snowless. And I also walked a lot with the dogs. I remember well that when I saw a field covered with whole mini lakes, I thought that if the russian orcs tried to break through from the side of Belarus again, their tanks would just get stuck in our fields. As the classic said, being determines consciousness. What a life - such thoughts you have when looking at the puddles!
In February, for the first time in my life, I found mushrooms in winter! Wow! I would never have thought that this would be possible. The weather continued to be very warm and my only disappointment was the need to continue to treat dogs from ticks, in the frosty winters we took a break in this not very pleasant activity.
Mart woke up my garden. I watched with delight how the first flowers were pecked. I finally managed to achieve what I dreamed of - my garden began to live an independent life.
But my hellebor amazed me. Usually this flower wakes up in February, but this year it probably celebrated the New Year and had a hangover, so it slept until April. But in April it bloomed with a huge lush bush, giving me a lot of joy.
May is the month of lilac blossom. I love lilacs! Delicate flowers, delicate aroma, variety of colours! Probably this spring I will conduct a thorough revision of the garden and get rid of a couple of sick trees in order to plant lilac bushes in their place after healing the ground.
In June, my roses began to bloom. Another evidence of global warming! They used to start blooming in July. Well, if they like to bloom in May now, who am I to argue with the rose - the queen of the garden! Fortunately, I pruned back in the fall, so early flowering didn't take me by surprise.
July is the month of unusually beautiful meadows! Wild flowers can safely compete with their garden relatives in beauty and elegance. I have an idea to create a corner of wild flowers in my garden. Of course, I'm not completely sure that these freedom-loving creatures will agree to become part of my garden, but I'll try to invite them.
August filled my garden with blooming hibiscus. You can always rely on these guys! They bloom together and always on time. With their attractiveness, they are very unpretentious plants. I love them as much as lilacs. It is very convenient that lilacs and hibiscus bloom in different months, as this preserves the continuity of the flowering of the garden.
September began to paint the forest with bright colours, which is characterised by green monochromity in summer. I especially like ferns here. These are amazingly beautiful plants in the fall, when they become golden and unusually decorate the forest.
October and November pleased me with the flowering of chrysanthemums. I spent several years for these flowers to take a foot in my garden. I don't know what I was doing wrong, but all my chrysanthemums died and never bloomed! This year was a pleasant exception to this sad rule. I will allow myself to hope that now the chrysanthemums will become permanent inhabitants of my garden.
And finally, December. Quite unexpectedly, December pleased us with snowfalls and real winter. But I must admit that it didn't last long. I was really hoping for the snowy weather on New Year's Eve, but it didn't happen. It's 10 degrees Celsius outside.
That's how our nature was this year. It's enough to look at the photos to understand how much everything has changed in recent years. How will it be next? Let's see. January is ahead again and it will be possible to start comparing.