Garden Diary

Dry frost aster, goldenrod, and evening primrose stems in deep snow.

February 2, 2026 🧵 Here’s some frost aster, goldenrod, and evening primrose peeking out of the snow.

Pretty much the entire rest of the garden is buried.

Some gnarly icicles hanging off a snow-covered roof.

January 27, 2026 🌱 Snow is still coming down, the roads are ice, schools are closed for the fourth time in a week, and the neighbor‘s roof could use more insulation.

January 19, 2025 🌱 And we‘re back to being buried in it.

There was another school closing last week, and we wouldn’t be surprised if there’s yet another tomorrow.

January 12, 2026 🌱 Yesterday was the first moderate snowfall of this fall-winter. It actually felt strange to have snow on the ground but not be buried in it.

Most of the snow was gone by today. Here’s the remnants of the rose mallow in the remnants of the snow.

Oh wow!

The crows are loud too, and eerie.

January 7, 2026 🌱 The snow melted, revealing an unholy amount of crow poop.

At least the garden gets fertilized?

Yes, a blanket of snow!

A corner of the garden covered in several inches of fresh snow.

December 29, 2025 🌱 It was well above freezing yesterday.

We expected the temperature to drop overnight, but I did not expect to wake up to this.

A small remnant of snow covered in autumn leaves.

December 23, 2025 🌱 All that was left of the snow this morning.

We aren’t having a white Christmas, but I can’t claim to be deprived 😂

We‘re hogging all the snow, apologies.

A very triangular snowman. It has been dubbed the Snowcone. It has two stick arms and it had a face, but fresh snowfall covered it.

December 15, 2025 🌱 Local schools were delayed this morning due to inclement weather, for I think the fourth time this winter, and it’s technically not even winter yet.

Happy last week of fall, y’all ❄️❄️❄️

December 10, 2025 🌱 This morning we got above freezing for the first time in a while, plus it rained, so it was an all-around soggy mess.

Here‘s the ‘Red Flame’ switchgrass in the thawing snow.

I’m in northern Indiana.

December 2, 2025 🌱 It hardly rained all year, but boy did it snow in November.

A shovel laying next to a yellowed, freshly transplanted peony plant.

November 24, 2025 🌱 There’s a new round of construction zone refugees in my garden.

We found this peony growing under an enormous baptisia. I hope it likes its new home where it will actually get some light.

November 18, 2025 🌱 Just a few straggling leaves remain on the purpleleaf sandcherry.

A tree branch with yellow leaves bent all the way to the ground under the weight of several inches of wet snow. A wooden privacy fence, wire mesh fence, and tomato cage are also caked with snow.

November 10, 2025 🌱 The first snowfall this year wasn’t playing around.

November 6, 2025 🌱 We had our first frost this morning.

As the garden goes dormant for the winter, I will drop down to posting photos once a week. Daily garden photos will resume when the snowdrops emerge.

Daily crochet photos will continue at @threadleafcrochet.bsky.social

November 5, 2025 🌱 The sedge by the compost bin continues to thrive, and continues to bring me joy.

November 4, 2025 🌱 The threadleaf coreopsis still in bloom.

November 3, 2025 🌱 Fall color it is. Here’s a different Virginia jumpseed plant in a lovely yellow.

Lovely. Such a pretty color and texture.

November 2, 2025 🌱 Virginia mountain mint in fall. It has the cutest little gray seedheads.

A mystery plant riddled with holes.

November 1, 2025 🌱 Not sure what this plant is, but it’s clear that something finds it delicious.

October 31, 2025 🌱 A fallen maple leaf snagged in the purpleleaf sand cherry.

The sandcherry looks like it has magnificent fall color, but its leaves have been this red all along 😆

Chocolate mint sprouts next to a garden log with a bright white bracket mushroom. There’s a few green, yellow, and red fall leaves on the ground and a dry branch covered in fuzzy seeds.

October 30, 2025 🌱 A cozy corner of the garden. Mushroom log, bright red fallen leaves, fuzzy seeds, and some chocolate mint because why not.

The seeds are on a stem that the painters broke and left laying around. My best guess is frost aster, but none of my other frost aster is fuzzy like that.

Sorry to hear that.

I also have plants that just don’t seem to like it in my garden. Blue-eyed grass, for one.

October 29, 2025 🌱 Trumpet vine spilling over the top of the fence.

This side of the fence is deep shade. Trumpet vine likes full sun, so I’m not sure why it has put this much growth into such a spot. But I don’t mind.

October 28, 2025 🌱 The early sunflower is still putting out flowers.

October 27, 2025 🌱 This ground cherry plant is also following its own schedule.

The other plant was at the unripe fruit stage three months ago.