Everything you see but the impatiens are perennials and come back on their own each year and usually bigger than the last! That is why I love perennials! I love annuals too, but always have to say goodbye. Funny thing though, all winter long I'll have red impatiens volunteers coming up in my houseplants so I do get to enjoy them even in the winter! And I have never planted red impatiens and have no idea where they come from or how they get into my houseplants. I know that impatiens can
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shoot their seeds quite a distance, but I don't ever plant red ones. It's a mystery!
I know!!! Isn't it just amazing the weird but nice little surprises that happen in mother nature!! I have some impatiens that came up again this year apparently from last year's seeds!! It's always sooooo nice to find something you didn't expect to see. I noticed a "pink polka dot" plant coming up all by it's lonesome in a pot that I swear I do not remember even having that plant last summer!! Go figure. Maybe some things are dormant for a season, who knows!! Love the mysteries!!
We live in Western Illinois and our seasons look just like this. It's amazing isn't it. I am a warm weather girl and when it snows I just keep telling myself that it will soon look like your beautiful hosta area.
Sometimes it seems like those are the only 2 seasons Michigan sees. But the summers make the winters bearable, don't they? It must be a celebratory day when you see the first of the garden popping its head up through the ground.
Susan S, where is your empathy? . Julee S, I know how much you shovel because I lived in Wisconsin for 15 years. You have to live in the northern states to really understand.
We're near Lake Michigan so we get an average of eleven feet a year with lake effect. I'm originally from Southern California so this was a big, but welcome change!
@Becky - you'd be surprised but . . . actually all the snow acts as insulation for the plants during winter!!
And I have to go find another post of Julee's I just commented on and fix something!!