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Berry Delicious?

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berries on vine covered in snow

It snowed earlier in the week and when I looked outside I couldn’t resist stepping out into the garden with my camera in tow.

I got a lot of lovely photos of snow covered plants that I’ll be posting over the next while.

One such picture is this photo of some berries that froze on the vine. They are covered in snow and I hope that at some point the birds discover the berries and find them to be delicious. Of course the holly still has berries on it too that the birds can eat if they choose to.

Is your garden covered in snow as well? Have you stepped outside to take some photos? Frozen plants can be quite beautiful. Give it a try.






Still recovering from my trip and starting to winterize the garden

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I’ve had a heck of week or three between being sick before I went to Vegas and getting even sicker while I was there. I’m still not up to par but I’m doing a lot better today than I have in more than a week. I think …

We got home early Monday morning and my husband had been wise enough to have both Monday and Tuesday off work. He tried going out in the garden on Monday afternoon to disassemble the patio furniture and start putting it away but it was cold, gloomy and rained quite a bit that day so he didn’t get very far.

Tuesday was a different story. It was very nice outside and while I was lying on the couch still feeling ill he decided to go outside and finish what he’d started the day before. He also managed to mound some soil around the base of ALL of our many roses in order to give the roots, graft and the first foot or so of above ground growth a bit of winter protection.

Hopefully over the weekend we’ll both get out into the garden.

I’d like to trim some of the roses that have very long branches that I know will die over winter. If I trim them a bit I can more easily protect what’s left with a large pile of leaves and some burlap wrapped around the roses. Then when spring comes all I’ve got to do is take the burlap off and digg out the leaves and if it’s anything like previous years there will be very little winter damage to the rose branches and if I’m really lucky the stems might even still be green.

Most of our roses are fairly hardy, but I have a feeling this is going to be a brutal winter so I want to be sure to protect the plants. We lost a few roses last year because we didn’t do any winter protection. It was a mild winter but we had very little snow so the cold, ice and frost damage might have been even worse than if we had had a good snow cover.

Have you begun to winterize your garden yet? Or do you even think about protecting your plants at all?

It’s going to snow all week?

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I just took a peak at my Weathernetwork icon on my desktop and discovered that it’s supposed to snow every single day this week. What the heck?

We went through November, December and half of January without any snow and all of a sudden it’s snowing every single day? Is it trying to make up for the dry spell or something?

Oh well. As I’ve said before, if it’s going to be freezing cold outside I’d rather that my garden plants have a nice layer of snow over them to give them a little bit of protection. Especially since I didn’t put down any leaves or extra protection on the beds this past autumn.

Anyone else having a week of snow?

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