Snow on Saturday this week. We don’t see much of the stuff usually and have got off lightly compared to a lot of the country. There’s not many plants visible and there must be at least six things that need doing that are buried beneath the snow.
1. I was walking up from the glasshouse on Wednesday morning before work and it just looked so spring-like (apart from the woodpile)
Looking back the other way today –
2. I know a lot of things will be absolutely fine beneath their snow covering but as it starts to thaw out there some things that are looking rather sad
3. I cut back the later flowering Clematis a few weeks ago and some of them have put on a lot of growth. I know they’ll come back but all that growth lost! As a contrast, Clematis orientalis seems unscathed, a much more sensible growth habit for the time of year
4. Lonicera fragrantissima has been beautiful this winter but has come to an abrupt end. Brown isn’t a good look for flowers
5. Next job is to get the thawing snow off the roof of the glasshouse before it descends in one go onto the plants below burying them even deeper.
6. I don’t heat my glasshouse at the moment, the non- gardener is slowly thinking about it for me, and so rely on layers of fleece to protect cuttings and over wintering plants. It works most years but this is the first time that I’ve left the covers on for days on end. I’ve looked underneath a few times and the compost in the smaller pots is frozen solid. Plants are resilient things but I may well be in the market for a lot of Fuchsias, Salvias and Geraniums in the spring! Lots of new planting opportunities 😊
That’s my six for this week. Did I mention that I hate snow? I think I’ve been quite cheerful considering. I’m going to sort out seeds this afternoon in preparation for slightly warmer weather and then I’ll be the gardening quilter (as opposed to the quilting gardener).
Dont forget to pop back to our host’s site at https://the propagatorblog.wordpress.com/ throughout the weekend to see what others are up to in their gardens
Six on Saturday 
The inside of your greenhouse looks like mine in the last few days …layers and layers…. I hope you have not lost anything.
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Fingers crossed for both of us!
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The spring flowers looked so pretty, do you think they’ll survive? We have a similar blanket of snow but most of the bulbs haven’t bloomed yet.
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I’m think most will be alright, fingers crossed. It’s been quite mild here and plants have been doing their thing quite early. It keeps us on our toes, just as we start to take things for granted……
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I hope everything survives for you.x
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Thanks.
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The gardener’s lot: so many things we can’t control. I don’t like snow, either; but don’t tell anyone – it’s so un-Canadian.
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That much snow in March just doesn’t seem right, does it? Hopefully everything in your greenhouse will be ok – I had some seedlings and strawberry plants in a small non-heated plastic greenhouse thing, but I’d forgotten to close the door fully (oops)…. no idea if the strawberries will be ok or not, until they start growing in the spring.
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So easily done. Thank goodness it’s thawing here now
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Ha ha!
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The snow’s stopped spring in its tracks & left us all to wait for what happens next. Things will grow, for sure, but which things . . . we’ll know soon. Hope you got your glass house dusted off w/o getting too cold yourself.
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