Snow is your friend

[Brian Van Fleet]

A few while it’s still here…

 

[coachspinks]

Ours is turning to slush already

 

[gooeytek]

A few while it’s still here…
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Love that ginkgo.

 

[RaginCajun]

thanks a lot for recommendation... both on book and YouTube channel... bought and subscribed. My wife just loves flowering bonsai so we went recently to one place around Shanghai and bought 3! ... and they are old and big. But obviously language (Chinese) becomes super technical when you go into details on varieties of trees (almost always untranslatable) so first of all will need to decide what it really is... than comes everything else.
For now they are wintering with protection... I've seen how they do it here...

My pleasure. My satsuki sits under my shade structure in the winter as well. With a north wind break. Other than that in north Louisiana it doesn’t get cold enough to hurt the roots. I just protect from frost. Flowering bonsai are a favorite of mine as well. Satsuki azalea are by far my favorite flowering species of all! They are really easy to grow here.. and I love their flower show.

 

[ABCarve]

We’ve had over 100” so far and more on the way. Some of my pals have had broken branches from the weight of the snow. Glad I keep mine in the barn.

 

[Glaucus]

lol @snowman04 for emoting 'sad' to all posts mentioning snow melting or no snow at all, and 'wow' or 'like' to all the posts celebrating the snowfall.

 

[The Barber]

Gonna hang on for a while it looks like.

 

[RJG2]

We’ve had over 100” so far and more on the way. Some of my pals have had broken branches from the weight of the snow. Glad I keep mine in the barn.

I hope you mean 10?!

We've gotten very little this year in Southern Maine. We got less than an inch finally today, so my 4 year old and I shoveled the patio into a wheelbarrow so I could spread it over my trees...

 

[ABCarve]

I hope you mean 10?!

We've gotten very little this year in Southern Maine. We got less than an inch finally today, so my 4 year old and I shoveled the patio into a wheelbarrow so I could spread it over my trees...

106” to be exact. That’s since Black Friday. I left my big Rosemary outside to euthanize it and most of the branches are broken off. There’s enough wieight to break my solar panels.

 

[RJG2]

106” to be exact. That’s since Black Friday. I left my big Rosemary outside to euthanize it and most of the branches are broken off. There’s enough wieight to break my solar panels.

That's insane - sorry about your panels.

I'm a little in awe at the weather the rest of the country is having compared to here...

Hurricanes, fires and snow - oh my.

 

[rockm]

That's insane - sorry about your panels.

I'm a little in awe at the weather the rest of the country is having compared to here...

Hurricanes, fires and snow - oh my.

Lake Effect snow in Pa. is an exception. 106 inches is too much love obviously. Lake effect snow makes it down here to D.C. sometimes. West Va.'s higher elevations, like Snowshoe (aptly named and at 4,848 Ft) gets an average of 100 inches of snow per year because it's in the path of that outward flow of snow from the lakes. I think Girard, Pa. is only a few miles from Lake Erie shoreline.

 

[gschup]

My first winter as a bonsai hobbyist. While the open, south-facing balconly was very good in the growing season, I huddled the plants on my north-facing outdoor space. Let's see if they make it!

Stockholm has plenty of snow

 

[RJG2]

Lake Effect snow in Pa. is an exception. 106 inches is too much love obviously. Lake effect snow makes it down here to D.C. sometimes. West Va.'s higher elevations, like Snowshoe (aptly named and at 4,848 Ft) gets an average of 100 inches of snow per year because it's in the path of that outward flow of snow from the lakes. I think Girard, Pa. is only a few miles from Lake Erie shoreline.

I experienced it first hand in college (Rochester Institute of Tech). Good thing there were tunnels throughout campus.

Not familiar enough with PA to have known it's that bad there.

 

[Dav4]

We've only had 4-5 inches total so far this winter, so at least 10 inches behind the average for this time of year. We got 3 inches 2 days ago and more coming tonight.


The refined conifers are under cover but when the snow is fluffy, I'll carefully shovel some on the pots...


but I always need to be careful where I source the snow