Fertilizer Friday - After the Freeze

Funny thing about the cold - some things really enjoy it, like our little peach tree.  It's deciduous, so it's bare as can be, except it has quite a few little blossoms that made it through the cold.  Here are two of them:

The giant ficus tree - the leaves stayed green but fell down.  Here is one day, January 16th:

and here's the next day:

and it kept on going.  It was kind of fun since we don't get to run and jump into piles of autumn leaves around here.  Then they all started turning brown and crunchy and you can hear the dogs and people wading through them.  Since the "wild" area at the end of the yards got almost totally devastated, we took that opportunity to clean it out.  It was just full of vines, wild grape and passion flower, and wedelia.  I found a passion fruit in there:

I don't know if the geranium is happy or not but it turned a beautiful color:

And the silly little poinsettia from last year or the year before is still thinking Christmas is coming - it's still working up its red.  Funny, they're supposed to be from the tropics and they didn't get hurt at all. 

I guess you just never know.  But we are certainly blessed to have it all, whether it turned brown, outright died, or is struggling through. 

To go see what else Tootsie has for you to see, please click on the Fertilizer Friday button to the right...I happen to know there is a wonderful post on Sage today - check it out.  Peace.  B : )