It’s a time for curling up with a great garden book, sorting through a season’s worth of garden notes and photos, turning garden produce into holiday gifts, travelling to a warmer place – or at least into a local garden center greenhouse to pick a poinsettia! Here are some ideas to keep you happy indoors:
1. Pick a photo or two for an unconventional horticultural holiday greeting.
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| Chilean Bromeliaceae Fascicularia Bicolor |
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| variegated Alstromeria |
2. Read the story of the making of a garden. Some oldies but goodies are We Made a Garden by Margery Fish; A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed, by James Fenton and An Island Garden by Celia Thaxter. All three gardened in places with enough overlap with Corvallis’s climate to make many of their experiences very relevant and very fun to read! Or give yourself a treat and rediscover The Essential Earthman by Henry Mitchell, longtime garden columnist for the Washington Post.
3. Pack jars of your sun or oven dried tomatoes or roasted peppers with olive oil, lemon peel and herbs to give as gifts. Clip rosemary and bundle with a red ribbon for a quick hostess gift, along with a rosemary-forward recipe such as this quick side dish: 1 can small white beans drained, heated with 3-4 oz. crumbled gorgonzola cheese, 1 T finely chopped fresh rosemary, or more to taste, and 2-3 T white wine or broth.
4. Use dried flowers, seed pods and fresh evergreens to decorate your home and packages.
5. Finally, add “Join the Corvallis Evening Garden Club” to your New Year’s Resolutions!!
Information at www.corvalliseveninggardenclub.org
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