Similar at my house!

Can't put a "like" on this.

More like4-5 inches

Aw, Some people have all the Luck! :-(

Some people have all the luck...and I hope you continue to have all of it. ;)

If it's going to be cold, you might as well have some snow cover to go with it. :-)

Yep, just like this it was winter.

Just 3 days ago we had fall.

That halloween snow was the second accumulating snow for us just north of you.

It was 17 degrees last night and its not looking good for temps the next couple weeks!

The worst (scariest?) part was the fact so many trees still had/have leaves on them. Fortunately I saw no limbs down around the area but it will be another year of no ginkgo color. Green leaves are dropping as I type. I still have cannas and dahlias to cut down and dig up. I didn't even have a killing frost until then. On the up side the kale should be sweetening up ...if I can find it...

tj

"It was 17 degrees last night and its not looking good for temps the next couple weeks!"

"I didn't even have a killing frost until then."

Exactly! Freezing temps didn't come until late October (average first frost date in EC is 9/28), but it came with a firm grip and isn't letting go. The bird baths are froze solid every morning. One of these days I'll bring them in and put the heated one out. I've been getting dirty looks from my feathered friends...and my spouse...

That's a lot of early snow. tj good luck with your trees. That's always a concern when wet heavy snow makes the branches with leaves so heavy. I only got 2" and that's enough. One good thing is the juncos are here now.

"If it's going to be cold, you might as well have some snow cover to go with it. :-) "

Um....No, Bill, No.

Before you make that comment, think of all the poor northern tree farmers who still have trunk protectors to finish putting on, irrigation lines to role up, weeks of late fall "winter" pruning to get done, inventory to complete....

I'm not ready! Too early for this s#@&! :P

Well, in that case, I hope you're 'UnLucky' ?

For some reason, that doesn't sound right. lol

We got a 'skiff' of snow flurries last night (light dusting).

Sorry but IMO, a snowfall in October is just a bit obscene!! It's not even that cold or with much snow (a few snow "showers") in most of Alaska!

It's actually colder than normal for us this early too but occasionally does happen.

We generally get the first two weeks of November in the 40-60's range and a few years ago, my NIL water skied Thanksgiving Day (wore a dry suit but still).

Hopefully, by Dec. & January, the PV will move back to the north. Unlikely but there's always hope. Sometimes you have to take what you get. :-)

tsuga - your conifers look gorgeous! That's a LOT of snow. Not looking forward to winter AT ALL. blah. lol

chicagoland got 3 to 7 in.

had to run around disconnecting hoses , stretching them to drain ,blowing out yard line with compressor , thru 5 in. of snow in half hour , what I usually get weeks to do

too old for this

#winterhumbug

tsuga, what is that huge fir tree in your pics that have those beautiful draping branches?

Appears to be 'chamaecyparis nootkatensis pendula'. Alaskan weeping cedar.

It is a stunning tree!!!

I agree, they really are nice. :-)

A little above my zone so all I can do is appreciate others trees.

For the record, now called: Cupressus nootkatensis 'Pendula' ;)

Actually nootkatensis 'Green Arrow'.

Here's a summer pic of it.

As for the statement, "One good thing is the juncos are here now." Folklore has it that within 10 days after you see your first juncos it will snow. I saw my first junco one week before this snow.

tj

Nice! Looks a lot better without a half foot of snow on it. :-)

My 'Van den Akker' is struggling. :( A contractor stripped one side of the trunk in an accident and it has never been the same. I don't have the heart to "off" it. If it does, I'll replace it with another or a 'Green Arrow'. So beautiful!

tj, do people comment on your trees as they’re strolling by? I’m guessing the Green Arrow draws a lot of interest. I know I’d linger awhile.

'Pendula'

tj that is just rude of mother nature. Snow has to come sooner or later but my vote would have been for much later.

I hope the snow has melted and you found your kale nicely sweetened!

@maackia- Yes, and 'Green Arrow' is my most commented on tree. Years ago a neighbor said it was the ugliest tree he'd seen. About 5 years later he said, "You know, that's a pretty neat looking tree".

@peren- Yes, I found the kale and the snow has melted (but a couple of inches due tonight). Not only is the kale now a great side dish, but it was great in the beef and barley soup I made this past weekend.

tj

I’m not minding the snow to tell you the truth.

it was 86 degrees today down In Florida. Looked at the forecast for my return and it just reiterates the fact I need to get out of WI. Single digit temps already!

i will lose my mind if December isn’t mild

Aw, 86 is boring. That's so two months ago. I'll be glad to rest for the winter...even if I need to scurry now to prep for it. Got my dahlias and half my cannas out of the ground today so I'm close to done. Lets see, the warmest of the next 10 days will be 40*F and the coldest night, well, it might stay above single digits. Average high is 51 and the low averages 37, guess I'm just an average guy wishing we had average temps. At least the mosquitoes are gone.

tj

It reminds me why I left Chicago...but I have to admit some of those snow pics are beautiful...from afar (here in Silicon Valley). Our trees are just now turning color, now that we have had some night temps hovering around 40 degrees.

-Babka

Still pretty mild here in the PacNW. I have had a few nights where it got below freezing, but nothing serious yet. View out the back door. Blue China Fir and a Parrotia persica showing Fall color. The Douglas Firs are growing down over the bluff. I'm about 500 ft above the valley floor.

Mon. here in N. Ill. 1 to 3 in. today

6 to 12 in. in NW Indiana

ron

CUT IT OUT !!!

Well, we finally caught up to all of you. We received inches of snow today. Only thing is I haven't put my hosta pots away yet! Hoping all the snow will be gone by the end of the week. I'll scramble and tuck the pots in their overwintering homes then.

No picture taken. I let my husband and son do all the shovelling! I stayed in!

it’s dead of winter with a high of 18 and low of 5 tomorrow.

-3 windshield now - peeled my face off shoveling the drifts tonight

Go fall!

We got about 4" of snow here in central Indiana. Last night it was 13F and tonight is going to be 9F. Fortunately, the sun is out, so at least the roads will melt more. I have lots of white pines, which don't do real well with heavy wet snow. Only thing worse is heavy ice. I sure hope we miss any of that this winter, but you just never know. About 28 years ago we had an ice storm that broke off the tops of most of our 33 acres of trees, and uprooted some. We've learned since then to appreciate unusual shapes in trees!

Yes, and 'Green Arrow' is my most commented on tree. Years ago a neighbor said it was the ugliest tree he'd seen. About 5 years later he said, "You know, that's a pretty neat looking tree".

It's funny, I used to think that of a neighbours Pendula. Called it the "ugly sloth tree". Now I wouldn't mind one of my own, or a Green Arrow like yours. They must grow on you!

having subjected myself to a couple big time hosta tours.. and minor conifer tours ... trust me on this.. its the weirdos that attract the most comment and admiration ...

anyone can grow the standard shapes ... but throw in a weirdo ... or a storm damaged plant that has made itself into a weirdo ... and that is all they will talk about ...

the hosta peeps were conifer novices .... so they were enthralled by all the conifers.. weirdo or not ... as they were so sick of looking at hosta by the time they got here .... anything out of the ordinary was to die for ...

as to me personally ... sometimes it takes.. in tree time.. a long time to come to love the weirdos.. lol ... especially if it was storm damaged ... and i just left it there 5 or 10 years... to let it sort itself out ... one might say ... ma nature is amazing ... [i others words ... i didnt love it to death trying to fix it] ....

ken

ps: and i am well aware.. its a function of having 5 acres .... that i can ignore any given plant.. for 10 years ... on a small suburban lot... i would probably have removed it.. just to put something else in the spot ...

catherinet, there was a monumental ice-storm where I lived in southwest VA in early Feb 1994. Almost every tree on a ridge-slope near me was completely uprooted w/all the trees lying down the slope. They must've started uprooting near the top when they were heavily ice-loaded and it acted like dominoes down the slope.

I can see how the "weirdo" conifers would attract attention. This summer I went on a garden tour and came back telling my family I want the tree I saw. It's not a conifer, but this is what really caught my eye:

And what a large, healthy specimen it was. I have since calmed down about having one. I think it is the kind of specimen that needs to have the right location for it and that doesn't seem to be my place. And that's OK. I've calmed down about it. LOL Also noticed a small specimen of the same just down the street. That fits with what Ken was saying---one doesn't notice or even like some trees, but give it a few years and you fall in love.

beech grow pretty slow for me in my MI .... you could plant a 3 footer ... and enjoy it for 30 years.. before it got to be the size of the one in your pic ...

ken

I don't know whether they grow slowly here, but when I left that garden, I noticed a nearby neighbor (in that same area) had one almost as big as the one in the photo. Now I am going to pay more attention to the one down the street from me. I know I thought it was an interesting looking small tree, but it sure does look impressive on maturity.

there are many unique cultivars of Fagus

some narrow but still weepy , others not soo huge

search around

ron

purpurea pendula

Good to know.