Jack Frost – hanging around for far too long
I think Jack Frost is reluctant to leave the garden. Just when I think he has gone for good, back he comes carrying snow flakes. This was what I found this morning.
Ophiopogon japonicus 'Compactus'
In the pond my poor dwarf Rush is no longer a bright ball of vivid green foliage. I’m also wondering if there are any frogs under the ice or whether they are still hibernating above ground. Jack is obviously not a frog lover.
Isolepsis setacea
Even when Jack vacates the garden he leaves traces. Not only the plants suffer damage.
Frost damaged pot
Frost proof terracotta pots…Hmmm!… I think they are only frost proof when they are empty of soil, and kept in the garage.
A crumbling alpine pan
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Oh, I am sorry Jack has left you his cracks! Those invisible cutting lines that penetrate our lovely clay or concrete pots … leave us saying why did I not put that away. I have just turned the pot around and went about planting it holds together at all. ;>( Hope you have a break from the cold soon!
He’s a wicked fiend that Mr Frost…naughty and no care for order and the delicates…cold to the core he is! ;) xxx
I will probably be blessed with a bunch of cracked and broken pots because mine have been left outside, as well;-( Won’t it be a wonderful gift to see spring? And not just spring on the calendar…real flowers and sunshine and…you know. We’re under a few ft. of snow and getting more today and tomorrow. What a winter this has been!
I will be more than glad to see the back of Jack this winter and it’s only February. I have a couple of large cracked terracotta pots but a stack of empty ones that I had left out have come through unscathed so far. I’ve noticed a lot of damaged walls round here. Hope the frogs have found refuge somewhere snug and warm.
No snowflakes yet (promised for thursday), but J.F. is visiting here, too…
Hang in there! Spring isn’t too far away..
Oh, I wish for warmer weather, winter seems to have been in your garden a long time. To long. Jack Frost can paint some lovely pictures but he’s a little devil around terracotta pots.
Ouch! I’ve noticed this in the past week too – I think what might be happening is that previously frozen soil thaws, the water melts and forms pockets in the compost and then, when it freezes again, and it’s all been sitting in the same spot in the pot, it forces a tiny fault-line to crack. It seems to happen when we get a freeze-thaw-freeze, at least in my garden.
Oh dear. The dwarf rush looks a bit splatted. It *will* soon be spring (she said hopefully).
At least you will have crocks for next year’s pots – and, even if they break, terracotta is so much nicer than plastic.
Good luck to frogs and rushes . . . and everything else in your garden.
We had a sprinkling of snow last night and it has stayed all day where the sun hasn’t been and the puddles have been iced over – now we have blue sky and sunshine. That’s the upside.
Lucy
You always learn something new when you are blogging. Jack Frost hehe.. never heard of him before so he is like ‘Father Winter’.
I so wish for him to go away and come back next December.
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