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\nThis is what my herb garden looked like at this time last year. This year has been a warm winter, and we finally got our snow four days ago. The snow is a layer of insulation for the plants. It protects the crowns of the plants from wind damage, helps to keep the plants settled in the ground, and provides the plants with an early drink as it melts off.
\nLate Fall is the saddest time in the garden, when the plants are dying back and have lost their promise. But, winter is a time of peace and repose, a time when the garden gathers it’s resources before it springs forth again.
\nThe garden is totally in shade this time of year, but as we move toward summer, the sun will rise further to the north each day until the garden is sunny from early morning to early afternoon. I’m looking forward to that change in light, not only to the length of the days, but to the more northerly light.
\nWinter is the time when I think about how the plants did last year. I read through new catalogs, and talk with my friends about plants that they’ve enjoyed, and I decide what new plants I’d like to try. Rebirth.
\nI can look out the windows this week and see that pristine view in the gardens and envision the green to come, and it gives me hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}