My City Garden: January 2016

Sunday, January 10, 2016

The baby

What do you get when El Nino and global warming come together?

You get irises blooming in January.

This was taken January 2 amid a backdrop of Christmas lights and it's probably the closest I'll ever come to having a January bloom day post.

Winter weather has finally arrived here in Philly so the flowers are now gone, but boy was this an amazing treat for the last seven weeks!

About Me

Hi, I'm Kathryn. I garden in Zone 7a in Philadelphia, PA, where I'm trying to make my enormous perennial garden dreams happen on a tiny city lot.

Before 2012, I used this space to keep track of photos of my garden while maintaining a handwritten journal. Since 2012, I've been using it as that but also as a garden blog. You'll be able to tell the difference in posts.

Also in 2012, my back and side yards underwent a total transformation. I found out I'd been planting on someone else's property (it wasn't really mine) for 7 years. New homes went up and half of my garden was ripped out. I had to start all over.