Can you believe? I know, we've had later snows, but for some reason I'm always in disbelief when I get up and look out the window. I'm more fortunate though. We only got a couple inches, and the sun is up, it is already disappearing. I am not do worried about daffodils, but some peonies are up and buds on one.

The sun is out bright and clear here too now. Lots of snow falling from the trees since it is above freezing as well.

Oh geeze I hate snow. We got about an inch on Christmas Eve and it was gone by Christmas day. That was just about right considering the timing.....I wonder if your dafs will still have blooms when the snow melts? ......Maryl

Here in west central Indiana, we saw a few snow flurries today, but nothing else It's strange how sometimes it goes south of us. We are not out of the woods yet though. We can have those wet heavy snows as late as late March and early April.

Nancy

You may get some nice spring tulips from all that moisture. Nice big yard!

Brad - yep, that's snow alright! :) Hope your sun melts some of it off. We had snow before dawn, but it looks like it will mostly melt off - I hope!

Alex

Oh boy...... just a dusting up north the past few days, but colder than normal this past week. One good thing, temps in the 50’s by the weekend! More garden cleanup in my future ; )

Sherry

I don't t know about Brad, he got more snow that I did. My daffodils are fine though, although I see a couple of the larger flowered clumps are bowing their heads a bit. Sounds like Brad may get a bit more snow.

My daffodils were surprisingly fine yesterday; however we got another 3/4 inch of snow last night along with a low of 24°, so they drooped and are covered with snow again. We also may get more next Tuesday after a brief & slight . warm up this weekend. The Hellebores don't seem to care at all, but regrettably they are the type that face the ground and aren't very enjoyable. I cut back a bunch of them last year; just left a few where shade won't allow anything else to grow. The Snowdrops have been done for sometime, but they never mind the snow at all either.

We in the Northeast are barely getting shoveled out from our 3rd major snowstorm in a row.....and there's talk of a FOURTH snowstorm headed our way early next week. I was happily vacationing in Florida for 2 weeks and came home just in time for storm #3 to hit (our original flight was cancelled on account of storm #2). Our driveway and porches weren't plowed out or shoveled because we were away and then we got 2 more feet of snow on top of that! If you're wondering what FOUR FEET of snow looks like, here it is:

Obviously, spring is a LONG way off for me!

There will be no daffodil sightings for many more weeks here. They are being held hostage.

Wow! We've been missing those storms in mid MI - sorry for you, but grateful that we haven't been hit like that. Hope you don't have too much more to deal with.

Alex

Wow Celeste, what a mess. I'm guessing you have a snow blower &/or plow of some sort, living where you do.

Oh yes, Brad. Definitely! My husband owns his own business which sells and repairs snowblowers, lawn tractors and small equipment.....so we always have a working snowblower! LOL

Well, I replied to this once, try again. Celeste, I think I would have turned around and gone back to Florida. Hope you had a great time while you were there. Everyone talks about the crazy weather in their state, Kentucky is enjoying the nicer crazy weather today, beautiful sunny right now that is supposed to be 62 degrees later. In the 70s this weekend! Rain though Friday night, so tired of rain, but that is spring.

Pat - you know you'll make it work wherever you go. How can we not garden? :)

Alex

Wow, I give heartfelt hugs to all of you that have been hit with these heavy heavy snowfalls. Celeste are these amounts of snow normal for your area? I wonder if these snowfalls could be part and parcel of why your blooms are so wonderfully colored. I know it is probably a stretch but there has to be something making your purples so magnificent.

I have been sitting here feeling sorry for myself because we keep getting streamers off the Great Lakes but we have dodged the bullet time and time again this winter . The weather guesserators predict snowstorms with statements like " there will be 25 centimeters drop on south west Ontario over night" and we wake up to an inch. So I guess I shouldn't complain but boy I am sooooooo tired, tired, tired of the winter and the cold and the winds and the.........well you name it I am tired of it . I turn 65 this year , is this what dotage looks like ?

Signet - ha! You and me both!!!

signet, YES, this is normal for New Hampshire but folks around here seem to forget that....we are supposed to have snow! And cold. And long winters. They act like this is a 'freak' act of Mother Nature because with global warming our winters lately haven't been as 'wintery' as usual. I actually celebrate the hefty snowfall because it's white gold for my gardens. All that precipitation melts eventually and goes right to the roots. I don't like winters with low snowfall totals because it's going to be COLD anyway. We had such a bad drought a couple summers ago and the winter after was virtually snow-less (which is NOT the norm); because of that, my plants suffered. I don't know if the snow helps the colors of my blooms or not....but maybe? I do know we have a lot of granite in the soil from all the rock and I planted my gardens where evergreens once grew (and those that overhang the gardens drop needles in the fall). My soil is acidic so maybe that brings out the purple?