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blooms late winter and

For some time now, nature is in its winter dormancy phase, the more quickly that winter has settled with almost a month ahead bringing snow and severe cold that my area like many others in France had not known so early in a long time.

Even before the holiday season, this lethargy has communicated to the gardener, reluctant to work outside also few in my garden this season. Suddenly, the maintenance of the blog suffers, however, there is much to say over to the same period last year, the intense cold and early intervention has indeed caused the delay of some winter blooms.

This year, the hellebore (Helleborus Niger ) that had flourished just after Christmas last year still does not flower stem, hardly do we guess the buttons protruding from the stump. This alpine plant that needs the cold to bloom had apparently benefited from a bit of sweetness before the snow and heavy frosts of December 2009.

Jasmine winter it is also not flower, whereas last year he lit up the whole garden but the buttons have resisted the frost, they will open in favor of a gentler time:

Some flowering shrubs herald a promising for the months of January, February and March.

On the witch hazel, you can see flower buds:



Just as the fragrance so powerful chimonanthe:

Fruit Decorative milky cotoneaster were quickly devoured by birds, probably because food is lacking, oddly, they never touch the berries of nandina:

Mahonia Charity remains attractive in late December but this will soon end its flowering:

course there are also valuable winter heath (Erica darleyensis ) which will take until spring, mostly white and roses, earlier than the varieties with red flowers:

One quick glance at the garden was enough to escape the torpor of his gardener and his give an energy boost, a therapy to make easy work!

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Slightly exotic

The current period, it must be confessed, is not the gayest of the year, days are short the weather is cold and damp, the gray everywhere. The garden is empty, there is little adornment apart from a few plants in fe u illage persistent or winter flowering. The recent episode of snow was at least the merit of breaking the monotony and create a beautiful setting but it is good that all this snow to melt finally given inconvenience caused in many areas.

In my exotic garden, too, the show is not very encouraging. Small jellies have blown the castor bean plant, the cannas, which have been folded down and the leaves of banana in Japan (Musa basjoo). The former replant next year, as the banana, I'm almost relieved that the freeze destroyed each year the aerial part, this limits its expansion, which is amazing. Who would have thought he would reach an annual level of nearly three meters, it starts every time the strain, perfectly indifferent to the drought.

Perennials chilly as velvetleaf, or Brugmansia hibiscus moscheutos were turned down, mulched and covered with veil of winter. The lantanas were dug up and overwintered indoors. I also covered the oleanders of the ground, the shrub Solanum (after folded), the only Phoenix canariensis and finally I have left the plant to which I want most, a rather large specimen of Dasylirion glaucophyllum.

Curiously, the three palm trees in the garden stand out more now that he does are over the burgeoning crop of summer. All winter, they will make a welcome note of exoticism. My only regret is that I never could still admire under the snow. They were slow to settle, their growth was slow in the early years but after almost 8 years they have respectable dimensions. For three or four years, I took the trouble to protect what is possible today. Attractive all year round, hardy, durable and easy to grow, they can be acclimated in many areas. I will come back.

Even if the weather is quite poor right now and even though winter is fast approaching, the fact of watching them always gives me much pleasure and a certain sense of escape. I miss the place, yet there are many other palm species are all very beautiful that is sure to please in my garden.

my palm I photographed two weeks ago. Their fins keep these beautiful shades of green all winter .

Trachycarpus fortunei (Palm China)


Chamaerops Excelsa


Sabal Minor




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First snow in winter frost

After a few flakes fell at the end of last week and quickly fades, new small snowfalls occurred last night in my area. Nothing to do with snowfall of December 2009 where the layer of snow was almost 15 centimeters. This time, only 2 inches covers the garden but this is thin on the ground due to freezing temperatures, a real winter ahead three weeks on the official calendar.

Even in a small amount, the snow comes to transform the garden and create a different atmosphere. The plants in the garden takes on a new appearance. I find myself looking with fresh eyes on this same ones that I do not pay attention in ordinary times.

is especially the case with yews, turned into Christmas trees. They seem switched to artificial snow, yet they do not pay for mine because I did not bother to cut them this year. That their would have retained a conical shape:

Yew, 12/2010

I also like the camellia in the snow but the snow should be removed, if the thaw does not occur, because it may burn the leaves:

Camelia 12/2010

The Van Houtte spirea, almost entirely stripped, is also covered in white, a white man very different from what one wears in May when flowering. Champions winter wonderland, the Sedums are again observed:

Spirea Van Houtte and sedum, 12/2010

The winter-flowering shrubs such as Oregon grape Charity or decorative fruits like cotoneaster milky snow are superb, they really stand out:

Mahonia Charity 12/2010
Cotoneaster milky 12/2010

The abelia completely Defleur, also holds the snow thanks to the few leaves that still bears, in white, we guess even shades of red:

Abelia, 12/2010

Admittedly, the show is beautiful, but I 'm still a little worried about the winter flowering jasmine, snow and extreme cold could deprive me of flowers this year.

I am however not too worried about the bay tin, flowers, still in pink buttons that are highlighted by the Snow, blossom, unless the cold is extreme as last year:

Viburnum tinus (Laurier tin) 12/2010

This Fall 2010 will bring, hopefully a few more surprises like this one.

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