Wild Wild Woods: winter blooms

12/07/2015

winter blooms

This winter is slow to chill Minnesota. The "trumpet vine" Lonicera 'Major Wheeler' is still blooming! Not just hanging-on old blossoms, but fresh blooms. Usually, the entire vine has dropped leaves and spent blossoms by now. This autumn, El Niño has brought consistent warm mid-40's weather instead of several hard freezes.

photo taken December 6, 2015

About this blog "Wild Wild Woods"

Through 2018, the posts on "wild wild woods" were photos taken in my bird garden and a set-aside strip of land that was the old fence row when the suburban lots in my neighborhood were farmed land. That wooded area sheltered a variety of plants and wildlife among the trees, understory, and a brushpile.

Now, my windows look out on a pond.

My new location is another former farm field that became a neighborhood. Fortunately, the wetland was preserved. It includes a pond surrounded by wildflowers, grasses, reeds, and a few trees.

I am pleased to observe and enjoy these places for birds, critters, and plants of central Minnesota.

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12/07/2015

winter blooms