Winter arrives – oh no! – it’s a false alarm.
Yesterday winter made a brief appearance. It was wonderful. There was a blue sky, frost, clean cold air and I felt invigorated.
On the surface of the pond there was a thin layer of ice. The delicate folds radiating out from the Waterlily leaves looked like cellophane.
Ice on the pond
Unfortunately the cold weather was a shock for this shrub that was recklessly putting out new leaves because it thought it was Spring. Ouch!
Magnolia stellata
While some plants shrugged off the chill and added frost as a fashion accessory. Very pretty they looked too.
Geranium renardii
Sadly Winter lasted only one day! It is raining heavily again today and temperatures have risen.
I want bright skies, frost and snow…… white, white snow. Is it too much to ask. It is nearly Christmas after all.
Come on Santa, go and have a word with those Snow Elves.
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The magnolia blossoms look like white paint brushes~ Frost does the most amazing job of making the ordinary look extraordinary. gail that lfirst crisp winter day is invigorating!
Lovely pics, sorry the magnolia got confused though! We have that crisp frosty thing going on here too but after last winter, I am not wishing for ANY snow this year.
I like the ice photo :)
We had a one-day winter too, but I’m quite pleased not to have snow yet – I still have lots of autumn gardening to do (OK, so I’m a little late with that – but it seems reasonable to extend autumn into winter this year given that I’m still catching up with things I couldn’t do because winter started in autumn last year!).
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