❄ Interlude II ❄

Down here in Cornwall you'll often hear how we never get snow, we have a very temperate climate - sub-tropical in fact. 

Not so much this winter!

Snow mark II arrived yesterday so we rushed out to enjoy it again.

Spring is still here, it's just wearing a snow hat!

Plucky daffodil, bent over under the weight of it's headgear but still standing.

Walking to Idless Woods through marshmallow sized snowflakes

Ramsons or Wild Garlic ready chilled.

Parky (northern term - betraying my roots here - it means chilly) Primroses

Laden Catkins

Hydrangeas given a new beauty with a fluffy white coating to their delicate, skeletal heads.

Cornish Camellias unaccustomed to this adornment.

The snow makes the yet to be touched by spring trees look magical...

Narnia or Idless Woods?

Snow still falling stripping everything of it's colour and creating an almost monochrome world.

Beautiful tree forms...

and glorious textures.

Happy snow day if you got one today!

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Spring's back!!

These photographs were taken exactly 2 weeks apart.

It's amazing how well everything has recovered!

My Clematis Armandii started flowering 3 weeks ago. 

This is how it looked 3 weeks ago...

weighed down with flowers and buds...

and shoots reaching skyward.

Then came the snow...

I was heartbroken, the whole thing slumped. I didn't even have the heart to take more photographs.

And now?

It's recovering amazingly. Some bits had to be removed and some flowers are browned and battered when you look closely. But overall it looks like nothing ever happened!

It is reaching for the sky again...

 and covering the unattractive extension perfectly. 

(Don't look at the other things in that bed, tidying and cutting back are desperately needed.)

Not so sure about this though...

my sad Wigelia. I think there are signs of life but I shall have to wait and see.

My shrubby white Phlomis is deeply miserable too...

only time (and a hefty chop back) will tell.

But altogether not too bad a casualty list for -6 degrees and 2 days of snow - almost unheard of down here.

I rather like the snowy version, it's a bit like when the christmas lights are up in my house and everything looks magical. Then you take them down and remember how tatty your house is and how much there is to do!!!!

Heigh ho - best get on with it.

-x😀x-

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❄ Interlude ❄

Well that was cold!

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A couple of days of winter wonderland in the sub tropical south west. To say it's unusual to get snow down here is an understatement - let alone on the first day of spring!

We even made it on to the national news (that us behind the lamp post)

Ironic really as we weren't even in the red weather warning zone.

Thursday evening looked like this...

pretty as a picture.

By morning it was thawing fast.

Now it's back to incessant rain.

Time to venture out into the garden and assess the damage.

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