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.
But it looks great.
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.