Wednesday 28 February 2018

February Snow day 3 Mullion Cornwall


                                 More snow....this time it's proper snow !


                                    Proper snow to trudge through .


                                                   The veg garden .


The Leek and Celery seed trays with the windscreen foil thing to reflect the light....will put some newspaper over these tonight .
 The greenhouse looks fine and I lit some more 8 hour candles in the lantern ...and will repeat this later on this evening . The Cacti are all covered with fleece and sheets of  newspaper .


I am so grateful to my friend Jessica who gave me a roll of fleece , enabling me to wrap up a few more precious plants .
 A young Trachycarpus fortunei standing straight in the path of that bitterly cold East wind .


 I must plant more hedging along that side of the veg garden to give more protection from the wind ...and shelter for the wild birds to nest in too .


                                       Tetrapanax Papyrifera "Rex" .



                                                     The Labyrinth .


 Looking through the window ...skid marks in the snow  , where not one , but several cars have all got stuck this morning , and slid towards the Cornish hedge on one side of the lane coming down and then towards the ditch at the side of the lane coming up . Mercifully  no one came through our cottage wall !


The sun made a brief and beautiful appearance , but those clouds are now bringing more snow and the wind is much stronger than this morning .
 The weather reports have been quite hard to follow , but there is another storm coming up from the South which when it hits the cold air is going to bring blizzards tonight/tomorrow . Storm Emma  . We took the dog for a short walk up the lane and had a chat with our good neighbour Michael ...who is also a keen photographer and veg gardener ...especially onions....in fact his garden is packed full of wonderful things which never fail to delight as we walk past .
   Well it is snowing heavily again and I must go and put another log on the fire .
   Cheerio for now ! Debbie :) x

3 comments:

  1. Much the same weather here, sunny but all white!

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  2. As much as I love the snow, I am not sure if I'll be able to deal with it for many days together. We've been dealing with Europe snowstorm effect here - the days have been really cold but has not snowed. I am currently mourning the passing away of my Indian plant called table rose - it just couldn't handle European winter.Perhaps a fleece covering could've saved it. I had no idea about this trick.

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    1. Hello Deepa , Oh..so sorry you lost your Indian table rose ! You must get another when the weather improves :)
      The snow became blizzard and became knee deep in places .I had wanted to make a snowman but every time I went outside I got a very sore throat and began to cough , so it was best to stay indoors sitting beside the fire .We had severe gales last night and rain , so the snow is now melting and the primroses and daffodils are all coming back just fine :) Nice to hear from you again :) x

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