December Garden Notes
From my notebook on nature and the garden
The December Garden is mainly for foraging, reaching deep into the yew bush to clip its branches, loosening the choke hold of berried ivy from the trees and pulling it in ribbons to the ground, searching out branches of firs with pine cones attached, and gathering the deep, pearly-blue berries of viburnum tinus.
December is the month for bringing in the greens, for making wreaths and draping shelves and mantels to remind ourselves that even in the darkest days of winter there’s still life to be had, still a little magic to be found in nature.
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