Bonsai will have to wait until June

[rockm]

Won't be doing much work in the next few weeks... Pics were taken Saturday, so the trees that are barely visible here are mostly invisible now...Amur maple forest, cedar elm and bald cypress, cold frame...to give some perspective, the amur forest is about two and a half feet tall. Bald cypress is almost 4 feet. An azalea and a boxwood are in the same photo, but since they're shohin-sized (less than 12 inches) they're already buried. The stack of cinder blocks on the right is four blocks tall...The cold frame holds Japanese and trident maple, as well a barberry and a few others.

I had to take the cover off the cold frame because the winds were gusting to 45 mph and threatened to make the cover a projectile.

All of these will be fine until they thaw. Same thing happened in 2010 with Snowmageddon...

 

[Cypress187]

We had snow for like 1 day, it's t-shirt weather again now.

 

[JudyB]

Well protected for the rest of the season I would guess! That's deep!

 

[rockm]

We had snow for like 1 day, it's t-shirt weather again now.

It only snowed here for two days...;-)

 

[Cypress187]

It only snowed here for two days...;-)

You don't like avatars? Maybe a nice rock?

 

[rockm]

Avatar added...;-)

 

[ColinFraser]

Won't be doing much work in the next few weeks... Pics were taken Saturday, so the trees that are barely visible here are mostly invisible now...Amur maple forest, cedar elm and bald cypress, cold frame...to give some perspective, the amur forest is about two and a half feet tall. Bald cypress is almost 4 feet. An azalea and a boxwood are in the same photo, but since they're shohin-sized (less than 12 inches) they're already buried. The stack of cinder blocks on the right is four blocks tall...The cold frame holds Japanese and trident maple, as well a barberry and a few others.

I had to take the cover off the cold frame because the winds were gusting to 45 mph and threatened to make the cover a projectile.

All of these will be fine until they thaw. Same thing happened in 2010 with Snowmageddon...

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Wow! Cool pictures; thanks.

 

[Cadillactaste]

Very deep snow! Glad it was you and not us Ohioans...got a young adult driver commuting back and fourth to college. This momma would be a wreck.

Looks peaceful though...thanks for sharing.

 

[rockm]

Very deep snow! Glad it was you and not us Ohioans...got a young adult driver commuting back and fourth to college. This momma would be a wreck.

Looks peaceful though...thanks for sharing.

My son's doing the commuting college student thing too. It will take a day to excavate his car. The college is closed for a couple of days anyway.

 

[thumblessprimate1]

You getting cabin fever?

 

[Cadillactaste]

My son's doing the commuting college student thing too. It will take a day to excavate his car. The college is closed for a couple of days anyway.

Glad to hear they are being level headed and the college is closed a few days so they can get the snow dealt with. As a parent...praying for a hedge of protection as your son commutes. Excavating his car could be very labor intense...don't over do it all at once. We aren't as young as we once were.

 

[M. Frary]

Ahhh. Insulation.

 

[wireme]

My trees this morning, it's been warm lately and the snowpack has really settled.

 

[M. Frary]

Mine are just bumps in the snow except for one tall elm.

 

[JudyB]

Glad it was you and not us Ohioans...

At least not Northern Ohio, but here in the south we got a foot, nothing compared to 2-3' but still a lot for a day.

 

[rockm]

My trees this morning, it's been warm lately and the snowpack has really settled. View attachment 92839View attachment 92840View attachment 92841

Yeah, but you have all those bendy conifer thingies ;-) Deciduous trees native to the south aren't quite as flexible under snow load, much less almost three feet of snow load.

 

[Dav4]

Yeah, but you have all those bendy conifer thingies ;-) Deciduous trees native to the south aren't quite as flexible under snow load, much less almost three feet of snow load.

Will you bother to clear the snow from the canopies? Back in the day when I lived in the MA snow belt, I kept most of my better trees under cover, but I had several largish weeping palmatums planted along my driveway and walk to the house. After one particularly snowy winter, with lots of shoveling, I was horrified to see, as the snow mounds slowly receded, that the one closest to the driveway had lost every one of it's main branches, essentially ripped from the trunk by the collapsing snow pile. That's when I started cleaning the snow off my trees, both bonsai and landscape.

 

[Cadillactaste]

Will you bother to clear the snow from the canopies? Back in the day when I lived in the MA snow belt, I kept most of my better trees under cover, but I had several largish weeping palmatums planted along my driveway and walk to the house. After one particularly snowy winter, with lots of shoveling, I was horrified to see, as the snow mounds slowly receded, that the one closest to the driveway had lost every one of it's main branches, essentially ripped from the trunk by the collapsing snow pile. That's when I started cleaning the snow off my trees, both bonsai and landscape.

Good to know...have a weeping maple in the yard. No major snow here...but something to remember.

 

[carp]

I'm enjoying the weather lately. It was 90°F in December and now we're nice and cool.

 

[Dav4]

Good to know...have a weeping maple in the yard. No major snow here...but something to remember.

Yeah, I think that year we got over 80" of snow. Throw in some heavy, shoveled snow, mix in some freeze-thaw, and you've got serious traction pulling on those weeping branches.