One of California's best features is its mild winter weather, and while we've been drinking champagne and eating mince pies, Mother Nature has been forging ahead with her spring plans.
The camellias and azaleas are starting to bloom. This property is chock full of azaleas, camellias, ferns, and rhododendrons. Ten years of oak leaves piling up beneath them has only served to increase the health of the soil, so they appear to be quite happy.
These paperwhites are also blooming, and the buds on the quince are fattening up for their February appearance.
This is called bergenia and used to be a popular edging plant. We have quite a bit of it here because we are old fashioned.
It might seem like a warm day by looking at the flowers, but actually it's quite cold and we had to burn some scraps this morning to warm the place up a bit. Here's Handy Man tearing out old walls in preparation for the new kitchen.
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