-Atlanta's gardeners are particularly fortunate for the winter holiday season provides a time to not only deck the halls in the home and prepare family recipes, casseroles made from the past garden season's bounty, but also here in the deep South, Autumn and Winter are seasons filled tasks to enjoy in the garden. There's just enough decay for one to see the garden with a clean slate; however, our mild climate, soft ground, unfrozen with merely a thin Jack Frost veil upon the green, and with the neighbor's Rooster I wake, pull back the drape and admire Mother Nature's son's crystals that shimmer in the Atlanta sunrise only to melt away in time for a day's digging, rearranging and late bulb planting (fingers crossed). An Atlantan may still plant cut-burlap into (spent weekend) dug hole or shrub to block off the an undesirable view; even the perennials left over from the remnants of the nursery sales can be 'stuck' in the ground last minute (again, fingers crossed). Perhaps the best part of Winter for gardeners everywhere is the time it provides for perusing the seed and plant catalogs; the colder months leave time for mental drifting in to a day's dream, sketching Spring gardens in one's mind. I do this last bit quite a lot. I think it's left over from memories of childrens books with illustrations of peach, rose and lavender colored botanical. Another childhood memory exists of making a snow angel in the Atlanta's pitiful dusting and after you make the angel, I stand up only to see bright green grass angel in stead of the white icy ones the children up North see.
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