[Diana in Wisconsin]

Coffee and Pastries on me, this morning!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

These Should Be Your Garden Resolutions in 2026

This year, resolve to reconnect—with your garden, your senses, and your wild self.

In the quiet months of winter, when much of the garden is resting, there’s an unexpected richness just below the surface. It’s a time for reflection, small shifts, and sensory immersion—the kind of recalibration that doesn’t require a to-do list or a total renovation. For Neive Tierney and Stephanie Lin, the duo behind Los Angeles- and Santa Barbara-based firm Nectar Landscape Design, this slower season offers exactly what many of us crave: a chance to reconnect with intention. Think of this season as a poetic lens to look at the landscape—and a compelling argument for skipping the performative pressure of New Year’s resolutions in favor of mindful presence. With a restorative design philosophy rooted in ecology, balance, and beauty, Tierney and Lin invite us to treat our gardens as places of return, not reinvention. In the spirit of a more grounded start to gardening season, we asked them to guide us through a handful of intentional shifts—gentle, achievable ways to cultivate calm and connection, from the ground up.

Less Can Truly Be More

Designing for Emotion, Not Just Aesthetics

Listening to the Land

Building Ritual and Resilience

Designing Around the Senses

The result? Gardens that grow with the seasons and keep inviting you back.

https://www.sunset.com/home-garden/garden-basics/new-years-resolutions-for-gardeners-2026

[FrozenAssets]

A fresh frozen Alaskan Happy New Year to you all!

[Redleg Duke]

Happy New Year from southern New Hampshire! A dusting of snow but not as cold…so far.

Seed catalogs are arriving.

[left that other site]

Mmmmm...That looks GREAT!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Happy new year my friends.

[mairdie]

>>Coffee and Pastries on me

Please, no. Way too messy. You’ll spend the whole first day of the New Year cleaning your clothes. Coffee and pastries on someone else. Wonder who?

[goodnesswins]

Yum...HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone. 2026...I predict the Year of the Robot” Hopefully I will get one that pulls /digs poison oand waters where needed!

[murrie]

Can you add me to the list? Many thanks!

[shaggy eel]

,,, Happy New Year Diana and everyone! First prune of my grapes, which are trained on my fences. We've had heavy rain showers so the air and more sunlight will have to get through to keep everything as dry as possible under the remaining canopy. Summer here hasn't quite been summer over the last week but in February I'm sure we'll be begging for rain.

Best wishes for a happy, healthy and prosperous 2026, from New Zealand.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Shucks, Diana, its 14:30, morning ended at 10:00 and I missed it!

Its OK...My daughter came back from New Year sleep over and there was some leftover Kringle!

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A good New year to everyone who Contributes and Enjoys this thread, and especially to Hostess of this thread, Diana!

(Mistress of Hounds and protector of animals! (Mostly!)