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My snowy garden

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snow covered Theresa Bugnet rose

Well I can’t say that my garden looks like that much right now, but some of the plants that have a dusting of snow look lovely.

The snow dusted branches above are from my rose Theresa Bugnet. It’s a very hardy rugosa type rose. It’s branches turn a deep crimson red in the winter and as you can see it looks lovely after a snow storm.

Dwarf Mugo Pine covered in snow

snow covered Mugo pine

We have three dwarf mugo pine in the front walk between our neighbors house and ours (we live in a semi-detached house) and when it snows they get a lovely coating of snow too that stays on their branches often for a few days.

Can you tell that it snowed over the weekend?

Do you have photos of your garden in the off season? Perhaps snow covered plants or frosted flowers?

BTW my post is a bit late today because our internet and cable went down late last night and didn’t come back on again until an hour or two ago! Grrrr

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Long spikes on Dwarf Mugo pines

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I have what I believe are Mugo dwarf pine trees in big round wooden baskets in my front walkway. They came with the house.

Every few years I notice that they develop these extra-ordinarily long spikes.

Sorry I can’t think of the proper name for them right now.

Yes, they do grow these each and every year, but every three or four years the spikes are extra long – like 6″ or more.

They are covered in what appears to be pollen.

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I’ve noticed a phenomena with coniferous trees in the past, where on certain days, every few years if you looked out at the right time that pollen would be puffing into the air like little smoke plums. The first time I noticed this was when we lived in our apartment and it was a foggy misty day. I think the mist loosened whatever was holding the pollen filled pockets and they were pluming pollen all over!

It was beautiful. I believe I have a few photos of that kicking around but I think there were taken on my film camera and are not the greatest photos.

I’m just wondering if my small Mugo pines are going to do that this year too? It would be cool to see again!

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