There was a short break in the winter storms, which means here that it’s in the low 40’s, usually with broken clouds. The unusually heavy snowfall is nearly all melted except for a few spots on the north side of the house. I ducked out for about an hour to whack back some clematis that is overwhelming the roses, and put down some iron sulfate on the creeping thyme. I meant to put out the iron sulfate BEFORE it snowed, but I wasn’t quite on the ball. The moss certainly waited for me.
The daphne odora has some serious frost damage, but only to the leaves. The chinese witchhazel ‘Pallida’ has some buds just starting to open. The mahonia ‘Arthur Menzies’ looks fine, but the flowers did not do well with the cold weather. There are still some blooms yet to open but I don’t know whether there will be much fruit this year.
And the weeds didn’t seem to mind the low temps at all. Oh well…
