Winter Solstice Wishes
- Nuts for Natives
- Dec 22, 2025
- 1 min read
Our shortest day of the year has come and gone.
Cultures around the world celebrate our shortest day of the year with a myriad of traditions and festivities. Gardeners know this marks the turn of the gardening year. Trees will gradually begin to emerge from winter dormancy. The landscape still appears well at rest. When you think about it though, the incredible energy and vibrancy of spring doesn't seem like it could possibly emerge overnight. The subtlest of changes begin to occur now,
One of the many gifts of a garden is possibility, Will this be the year, the serviceberries produce delicious fruit with such abundance both gardener and birds can get some? Will an arrowwood viburnum planted three years ago continue to sleep and creep or will this be the year it leaps? Will winter sown seeds take and produce dozens of new perennials for planting this spring?
As for me, I have been inspired by this native persimmon tree I discovered this fall along a busy street in Washington D.C. The array of fruit was mesmerizing. My own persimmons planted as the youngest of trees have yet to produce more than one or two persimmons a season. This year could be the year though!
What ever your winter muses may be, I hope the gradual addition of light, day by day, makes realization of those garden dreams a step closer.
Wishing you all.of the very best!
Shari
Beth,
Thank you so much and the very same to you! All of the best!
Shari
Marry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and let the Light come in ! Your column of information and beautiful photos gives us the light of inspiration ! Another new year of fun with native plants ! Thank you.
Happy Solstice and best wishes for green thumbs all around in the new year!
Happy solstice ahd holidays!
Beautiful! One of my most cherished days of the year is winter solstice and this celebrates it so poetically. Best wishes to all the possibility for our native gardens and beloved wild spaces in 2026….