Everyone to the shelters!
Yesterday the weather was quite unpredictable and a small hail shower had blanketed Papi Jo’s garden. This morning a mini tornado ravaged the garden. Fucking climate change…
Tag: weather
March-April hail shower
Today a superb weather to end the month of March in beauty. At the end of the afternoon, the sky was all grey, then all blue, followed by a sudden and brief hail shower then the return of the all blue sky.
Dressed for the winter
Winter is fast approaching, and it’s time to think about protecting the most fragile plants in the garden. Last winter, we had two periods of frost that did not suit some of the ferns in the fern wall. All these ferns are hardy, but after talking to the nurserywoman at…
Snowed under… so what?
In Papi Joe’s garden, each plant copes with the snow according to its specific characteristics. The snow does not scare off the ‘snow heather’ or the Japanese azalea ‘Amoena’. Snow plus frost flatten the hellebores on the ground (but they will rise again) and scorch the pretty pink flowers of…
Let it snow…
A rare event this morning, woke up with the garden under the snow. Not seen such a sight here in 10 years.