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cimoreneOur garden is not WHOLLY in hiding. The crocuses, lilies, and daffodils are starting to come up. Nothing has started making buds yet.
It got cold again two nights ago though and now it's one degree above freezing, but it's been sleeting and snowing a very fine layer of powdered sugar all day. (And I expect the last snow to happen after Easter, as it has for the last five years or so.) Wax says this cold snap should not last many days, so hopefully all the shoots will be okay.
We planted a lot more bulbs in the perennial borders last year and it's always a bit of a crapshoot if a bulb will survive the winter or not, even with established ones. But the amount of shoots was looking good.
Since the snow hasn't finished, the street hasn't been washed yet, although the street brushes have come by once or twice to move some of the accumulated gravel to the edges after the last thaw which lasted a few weeks. However, all the dust is still out there. It's very much too dusty on the streets to walk along them on a dry and windy day without a mask if your airways are prone to irritation. We haven't managed to start walking again yet anyway, so this isn't our problem! We just gawk at the dust devils in the parking lot from the car windows on our weekly pilgrimage to the supermarket.
It got cold again two nights ago though and now it's one degree above freezing, but it's been sleeting and snowing a very fine layer of powdered sugar all day. (And I expect the last snow to happen after Easter, as it has for the last five years or so.) Wax says this cold snap should not last many days, so hopefully all the shoots will be okay.
We planted a lot more bulbs in the perennial borders last year and it's always a bit of a crapshoot if a bulb will survive the winter or not, even with established ones. But the amount of shoots was looking good.
Since the snow hasn't finished, the street hasn't been washed yet, although the street brushes have come by once or twice to move some of the accumulated gravel to the edges after the last thaw which lasted a few weeks. However, all the dust is still out there. It's very much too dusty on the streets to walk along them on a dry and windy day without a mask if your airways are prone to irritation. We haven't managed to start walking again yet anyway, so this isn't our problem! We just gawk at the dust devils in the parking lot from the car windows on our weekly pilgrimage to the supermarket.
