Last updated on December 2nd, 2011
THE NORTHEAST’S FIRST BLIZZARD OF THE SEASON arrived last night. Would you like to see how beautiful a garden can look under 15 inches of sparkling white snow?
If you live where winters are mild, this is the winter wonderland you are missing. A wonderland, I mean, which requires knee-high boots and a stout snow-shovel in order to get out the front door.
I love how arborvitaes sparkle when clothed in snow. The long row above partially screens my Kitchen Garden, and forms a back drop to my cement Venus de Milo.
White pines (which here form a copse near the swimming pool) tend to shed, not hold, the snow.
In an effort to conserve moisture, azaleas, like the one up top in my Woodland Garden, curl their leaves inward when temperatures plunge…
while holly laughs in the face of snow and ice.
Also intrepid are the mallard ducks and Canadian geese which swim in the Hudson River tributary behind my property. Just seeing this picture makes me shiver.
Did last night’s blizzard reach your garden, too?
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Adele says
Your house looks lovely in the snow! But I pity those poor ducks and geese.