Deep in winter

I regularly read garden blogs and especially watch YouTube videos. This is an attempt to tide me over this hard cold  winter. Winter starts  for  us in November and lasts until mid- to late-April. That is a very long cold  season.

The garden is completely covered with 5" of pure white snow at the moment. We had a heavy snowfall last weekend and it has remained on all the trees.  Usually it melts and falls off, but many trees are bowed down with snow. And, if it doesn't melt soon, another snow will cause many of them to break and fall over. Such is central Ontario weather, hardiness zone 3B.

But in 2 to 3 weeks, we will be heading south to visit our daughter in Texas and we watch the temperature rise as we get further and further south. Usually we stay a week or 10 days, but this time we will be staying 7 weeks or so, as we bought a house in Bullard, Texas. Last year made us realise that the winter here was just too long and we had the means to purchase a second home so why not?  Not sure I will do much gardening there but I will be checking out  what grows in that southern clime.

So looking forward to the warmer temperatures and more sunshine! 

Meanwhile Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to one and all.