It’s been wet here also. We had a few weeks with below normal temps in November, but it really feels like a zone 6 winter so far here. I am trying an experiment this season. I dug up an old established daylily and put it in a large pot with excellent drainage. It still has a bit of green foliage, I hope it survives. I’ll be happy with only foliage, tired of buying annuals every year to fill most of my pots.

Sherry

Generally warm and rainy here too, had a few cold days. Just LOTS of rain.

Happy New Year everyone!

After the initial big snowfall we had earlier, we go from flurries/white outs to rain, and fluctuating temps. Most days we have no snow cover and when we do, it melts quickly. Our weather person says we won't experience the really cold temps till late January/early February. We've had winters like this before. As of today, only 76 more days to the "official" first day of spring. :)

Happy New Year.

Julia

We have continuing rains (basement flooded whcih was not fun...sump pump died) some very cold, but lately, like last year, some far too warm...Air contioning on New Years Eve. Very much akin to last winter so far.

kay

It has rained, rained and rained here. We normally get just over 45" of rain a year. We beat every record on the books not only for our state but many states that usually get more than us for a whopping 71.98" of rain for 2018 for central KY. The positive side: it beats droughts.

We too are supposed to get really cold later in the month. But even now we are just barely over normal, just enough to get rain!

Happy New Year to one and all .

Well, we are considering building an ark . We have had so much rain that the farmers all around us who planted winter wheat appear to have lost that crop I myself am going to be spending the day outside shoving daylilies back into the ground , It has become a tradition here . We get freezing and thawing so much over the months of December and January and then in January we get rain , Lots and lots of rain . Although this year it hasn't stopped raining since end of August /early September. I think we have seen the sun only 3 days during those months . Almost all the newly planted daylilies get heaved out of the ground and I have to shove them back in and hope for the best . There is standing water on top of a lot of my daylilies. It too freezes and thaws and freezes and thaws , it is a wonder I have any daylilies at all . Here are a couple of examples of what I have to deal with every January . We are not talking about a root here or there exposed . I am guessing it is the heaviness of the clay that when saturated and frozen and then thawed heaves the entire plant out of the ground . It usually takes 2 or 3 seasons before a plant is reasonably secure in the ground here.

Wow, that is sure a mess you have Signet. I'm sorry you have such a problem.

Thanks for your thoughts Brad . Normally I try not to plant anything in the fall but this past year I was in the process of closing down 2 long gardens and these were plants that were left over after cleaning/moving/replanting clumps and so I found odd spots to plunk them . I guess I should have stuck a brick on them but I always worry that I will forget to remove the brick come spring and lose the plant because it is buried under a brick .

My husband wonders why I call where we live the "armpit" of Canada. Of course when we first moved here , I was not a gardener so gave little to no thought as to what the soil composition might be. My Bad!

Oh no! Bless your heart. The intense and flooding rains haven't bothered them (unlike our basement) but the silly things think these last warm days mean it is spring and are greening up to get "bit back" again this week. I have nothing like your disaster though. So sorry.

kay

Kay: Sorry to hear your basement got flooded. Hope everything with the sump pump is now fixed.

Signet: Yikes. That is no easy chore to replant all of those especially in January.

We typically do not get this much rain during January here but this year, more rain, then snow moves in and the cycle continues. No snow cover here at the moment .

Julia

Oh no, Signet! What a chore, but at least the plants look ok. Lots of rain still here, a few 60 degree days followed by 20s. Really confusing for the plants, but so far no really cold weather. Snow is predicted this weekend, we will see how January goes on.