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The snow stayed this time!

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Darn! I write about how it’s been snowing on and off each morning for the past few days and guess what? It snowed a tiny bit yesterday evening and I guess it snowed a tiny bit in the night and unfortunately it’s been cool enough all day for the snow to stay on the ground.

It’s been melting away quickly before this … but now it’s staying. Boo Hoo.

I’ve had roses continue to bloom through the month of November.

Don’t get me wrong, it hasn’t been warm here, although we have had a few nice warm days here and there. Nope it’s just my crazy roses don’t know when to shut themselves off, and before you ask the last time I deadheaded any of them was the beginning of August so they’ve had plenty of time to get the message and shut down for winter.

Finally those lovely miraculous blooms are drooping. I thought I might continue to look out the window and be amazed at the perfect flowers for a while yet, but I guess last nights snow and cool temps finally got to them.






It’s been snowing

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Every morning of the past few days it’s been snowing a little bit. I sometimes stay up well into the night and when I’m just going to bed at 4 a.m. or so I see the snow coming down.

It hasn’t been staying at all, but I think before long it will be cool enough that it will stay for a few days when it falls.

Here in Toronto we rarely have more than a tiny bit of snow that stays on the ground throughout the winter. Oh, we have snow banks that have built up from the heavy snow falls that we get, but if it’s not too cold of a winter it’s not uncommon to only see a bit of snow on the lawns. Late December and all of January are when we get the most snow, and when it’s most likely to stay for a while.

Have you had snow yet? Has it stayed on the ground?

It’s freezing!

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I’m writing this post to record our first frost. Well I think it’s the first. it’s -2 c outside right now and I believe that’s the first time it’s dipped below zero. Brrrrr Well at least all the silly roses in my garden will hopefully get the message that it’s time to shut down and stop blooming. Yes – my roses are still blooming. They always seem to bloom into mid November or so.

I guess it’s time for me to get outside – not now, it’s cold – and clean up the garden and start putting it to bed. I always mound some compost or peat around the roses to protect the roots. I buried the root ball several inches below the soil level when I planted the roses but the mounds that I put around the base of the roses in the fall give them further protection in the winter.

We don’t tend to get a lot of snow here. Yes it does snow and sometimes we get quite a lot but it melts away fairly quickly. The air however stays very cold. The temps can fall to more than -20 c and worse with the wind factored in. If my garden doesn’t have a good snow cover or a cover that I’ve created with my mounds of compost and piles of leaves the plants will be more suceptable to freeze damage.

I’m not looking foward to putting the garden to bed this year. It’s a big job what with us having 60 roses plus all the other plants. We’ll manage to get it done though.

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