Calm and sunny today, after a cold blustery day yesterday. The day is in the 50s, but in the sun it is warm and nice sitting outside. It got a little breezy in the afternoon.
I hand watered a lot of things today. It isn't much or very deep, but it helps. After our big snow storm in October, we haven't had a drop of moisture. Keeping things watered by hand from a 2 gallon can is hard.
The Panchito manzanita I got last summer from Plants of the Southwest has clean looking evergreen foliage in the brown dormant garden now.
Something to look at, although the leaves are bronzy yellow green now, not the deep glossy green of summer.
It does lean forward in an odd way. It was full and well shaped when I bought it, but it struggled at transplant and dropped leaves and got kind of leggy and tilted.
I'm hoping it fills out and settles in this year.
I think I need another. I'll take out the black hollyhocks by the gate and perhaps transplant them to the group of hollyhocks by the rain barrel, and in the narrow little spot by the gate I'd put another Panchito manzanita.
A low manzanita under the vase shaped butterfly bush would fill that spot nicely and be something to look at in winter.