Color in Winter
Red twig dogwood, Cornus sericea , also known as red-osier dogwood. Red twig dogwood, Cornus sericea , also known as red-osier dogwood. Host plant to the gorgeous Spring azure butterfly. Who wouldn't want to catch a glimpse of shimmering blue darting through the garden? Celastrina ladon, the spring azure or echo blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae.- Wikipedia image courtesy of Wikimedia commons Of course, after twenty years of growing red twig dogwood, I still haven't seen a single blue butterfly. Fingers crossed that this year we'll see a few! Red twig dogwood with birch trees in tree tubes behind So why bring this up today? Because this week has been really absurdly cold. When the high temperature only has a single digit, that's really cold. The apartment toilet froze, twice. As soon as the snow gets squeaky, and the sky turns bright blue and the night sky is like black glass, the temps are going to fall through the floor. Speaking of floor... there...