January Garden

How can you make spring flowers grow in January?

Easy. Just write about them so they come alive inside your mind and heart.

Start with the itty bitty crocuses -- yellow, white and purple -- that can poke up even in a late season snow.

Go forward to the dazzling tulips that bloom in yellow, red, orange, pink, purple and so many other colors.

When spring is in full force, there will be hyacinth and daffodils,

bleeding heart, phlox, lupine, dogwood, magnolia, lilac, poppies, rhododendron, azalea and many more.

Before you know it, a whole garden has risen up in your imagination. Stay with it and let Mother Nature plant her finery in your soul.

It's a great way to get through winter!