How fun!!! Thanks for posting.

Mine is mostly brown and without much color except for the pyracantha berries. I had a small group of cedar wax wings come through last week and they ate a lot of the berries, but it will take a much larger group to eat them all as I have a whole fence row of them. Although this has been a relatively mild winter for North Texas, it has still been killing to plants that bloom. My shrimp plant is history until Spring when it will restart and give me many blooms all summer. Oh, wait a minute, I do have a daffodil blooming............not the large ones, but the pretty little cream colored ones with the yellow center. Now that is a refreshing site. Thanks for giving us that much needed boost at this time of the year,

I have a blue and white iris blooming! The bloom is so low it is sitting on the ground. I think it is Clarence. If so it is a rebloomer.

Freshair, glad you enjoyed it.

Carrie, how nice to have an abundance of berries for the birds. The resident mockingbirds here eat the berries from my Youpon holly trees all winter. One dry year when the youpons didn't produce berries I fed the mockingbirds dried fruits like raisons and cranberries.

Wow Carrie and Kathy -- sounds like signs of spring are popping up already with your early blooming daffodil and iris! My larkspur seedlings and columbines are coming along nicely with the recent rains, but that's about it for new stuff, not counting the weeds of course.

How about the rest of you? You are welcome to add any photos to this thread or start a new one. We need all the encouragment we can get to make it through these next few weeks of winter :-)

I know some of your are getting your winter 'plant fix' with winter sowing. How's that coming along?

Very cool pictures especially the turtle and the snake.

After I posted that picture of my lemons I noticed a flower buds on a few branches nearest the house and window. I think it's confused. If it actually flowers out, I'll post a picture.

Lisa

Beautiful, love the turtle picture with the snake. My shrimp plants are still blooming and I've had a couple of Knockout rose blooms too.

Very pretty, Roselee. I still have a few spots of color.

Jim

Thank you Roselee for posting your blooms! It hardly looks like winter in your garden!

Thanks everybody for looking and commenting. It's a little easier for the garden to be green and have a little color in South and Central Texas than in North Texas -- that's for sure.

Check out the blog 'Digging' linked below to see some water-wise landscape plants that look nice in a Central Texas during the winter. I'm leaning more toward that look.

Does anybody have experience growing Texas dwarf palmetto (Sabal minor) that Pam shows in the first picture and know just how much water it takes to grow it?

Here is a link that might be useful: How to green up your winter garden in central Texas

I haven't grown dwarf palmetto but do see it planted and thriving in gardens around here. It grew wild under tall trees in the shady forest floor around my Mom's old house near Livingston.

Thanks Pam, sounds good. Because of its foliage and size I'm considering it for a shrub.

I suppose your box turtle was sparing you the surprise of finding that snake!