We're getting it all this week - rain, wind, sunshine, hail, snow, even thunder. I hope the weather is getting it all out of its system so that we can have a gloriously warm and sunny summer here on the Pennine Mountains of West Yorkshire. I posted that we had hail the other day, today we have several inches of snow and it's still coming down in great big lumps. Snow is pretty to behold but terribly heavy and it can be seriously damaging. Many years ago a young silver birch of mine, a tree about 15ft tall, was split down the trunk due to heavy snow, just like a peeled banana.
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| Fleece protecting newly bought plants from snow 29/04/2016 |
Maybe it wasn't necessary but as I knew snow was coming, I protected with fleece my newly bought plants which are huddled together on my garden table against the house wall (above), and I've protected with bubblewrap my Japanese Maple 'Acer palmatum dissectum 'Ornatum' against it by covering with fleece and bubblewrap (below).
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| Bubblewrap protecting Japanese Maple from snow The shrub in the foreground is a new potted plant: Syringa vulgaris 'Mme Lemoine' |
Below, a garden full of snow! You can see how the snow has bent the tulips in the pot, and at the foot of the swing (right) the sad little Obdam daffodils are in trouble. I only staked them yesterday after rain had made their beautiful heads so heavy that their stems had broken, and now snow has done more damage. That's the problem with Obdam! Obdam flowers are so heavy with petals that they are too much for their stems to support. They really do need more shelter from the elements.
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| Pennine Mountain snowy garden 29/04/2016 |