winter

January 13, 2025January 13, 2025

We are having a bit of Winter, just a bit of frost and a bit of snow, nothing really out of the ordinary compared with what people in other countries get. I hope you are all safe and well.

I took the first pictures of 2025 as the frost made everything look a lot better.

Lonicera nitida, a wintergreen bush with small leafs but it grows really fast.

Euphorbia cariacias looking sad as they don’t like the cold.

My white camelia, already with buds.

Russian vine, taking over the garden, I think we need a professional gardener to remove it, it grows faster than the speed of light !!!! So beware and don’t plant it !!!!

Rhododendron in bud also as we had a soft and very wet Winter so far.

Viburnum tinus,a pretty wintergreen bush that can handle a bit of frost, it will soon bloom with soft white and pink flowers.

And my spineless holly who was already defrosting in the sun.

The frost makes the garden look very pretty and it brings a lot of the birds to our garden as we feed the birds and they have a bath in our pond. It doesn’t matter how cold it is, the birds want their daily bath.

Take care dear people and enjoy your gardens and balconies and keep safe !

January 20, 2024

WINTER WONDERLAND

We didn’t get the snowbomb the forcasters thought would come our way, we missed it by a few kilometers, the whole of Belgium was covered in snow up to 25 cm, only a few villages in the north were spared and got noting of it. But the next day we got some, not much, just to cover the garden a bit and turned it into a Winter wonderland. As of tomorrow we’ll get 9 C° and the next days even higher.

Here are a few pictures I took yesterday.

A few plant tables.

Snow on dried flower stalks of the sedum spectabile.

Rose bottles.

Snow on thistles.

Snow on a wintergreen viburnum

Verbena bonariensis

Wintergreen bush with tiny leafs

I hope you are all ok, wherever you are, some will have snow and ice, others who live in Summer at the moment; enjoy your garden !

January 16, 2024

A RARE SIGHT

Snow is a rare sight over here, many decades ago we had much more snow as it was a lot colder in Winter. Usually it melts the same day. I took a few pictures in my garden this morning but most of the snow is gone now but there is fresh snow on the way, it could be just a little bit but it can be quite a lot, we’ll see tomorrow. I would have loved to go outside and on the street but there was ice under the snow so it was dangerous, I didn’t want to risk my new knee.

Our beech hedge was covered in snow on the top.

My viburnum bodnantense was covered in pink blooms as we had a very soft Autumn, then all of a sudden the temperatures dropped to -6 C° overnight.

A view in the garden.

A few of my pots covered in snow.

A few of my plant tables.

I took all these pictures from the backdoor as the patio looked like a frozen lake.

Take care ! And enjoy your garden if you live in a warm climate.

December 15, 2022

SUGAR COATED

As it is very cold here at the moment, even freezing during the day, the garden looks very pretty, so I took my camera and had a walk through my garden. It is only frost, not snow.

January 23, 2022

NEW LIFE

Outside it’s chilly, windy and wet but it is too warm for Winter so lots of plants and tree’s are starting to grow again. But the problem is that the weather can change for the worse and we can still expect snow and severe frost untill mid May and some years even later. Then all that new life that is growing now will be dead but most plants can grow again later in the year.

My garden looks dull, apart from the evergreens there is nothing to see. I had lots of rosebottles and red berries but they are all eaten by the birds now.

**EUONYMUS** **EMERALD AND GOLD**, **ALWAYS LOOKS AS IF THE SUN IS SHINING ON THIS LITTLE BRIGHT BUSH**

**SKIMMIA, ALWAYS THE FIRST TO BLOOM, HERE THEY ARE STILL IN BUD BUT THEY’LL SOON START TO BLOOM**

**I HAVE 2 OF THESE HUGE AUCUBA BUSHES IN MY GARDEN AND IN WINTER THEY LOOK GOOD BETWEEN ALL THE GREY AND BROWN**

HAVE A GREAT WEEK AND TAKE CARE.

December 26, 2021

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HAVE A GREAT END OF THE YEAR AND A FANTASTIC 2022 !!!!

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February 7, 2021

S.N.O.W.

We had snow last night, lots of snow, it is decades ago since we last had this amount of snow and more is comming our way. Yikes !!!! And it is COLD !!

A few pictures of my garden this afternoon.

Aparently the snow will stay for over a week and I so hate it. We are not used to it so we don’t have snowmachines to remove snow from the roads (only a few in the cities) so only salt is used but only on the big roads.

I hope you are all well and happy. Have a great week and stay safe.

February 5, 2021