One year the gargoyle never made it back to the side garden after Halloween so I just decorated it for Christmas.

Hamamelis x intermedia 'Jelena' in between snows

The garden, and looking out the window toward the garden. I love when it's cold enough for jackfrost to form on the storm window, such organic patterns.

Function, that is some scary stuff to leave out all year

Christopher, we have four Witch Hazels in our yard, although I don't recall the specific varieties. I love when they have those colorful buds, they are the first colorful thing to show up in late winter.

DigDug, great to see the before/after on winter landscape!

Nickel, What is that plant a yucca?

Yes, it's yucca, not sure which species. I've had it four years now. The silly thing blooms in November, long past the time any pollinators for it are out. Most other yuccas here bloom in June or July. But I like it's structure.

try looking up yucca baccata

to see if it looks like yours

ron

This plant support makes a good spider web.

tj

ron, thanks, it could be yucca baccata. It would help if it would flower early enough in the season to set fruit! Maybe the parent plant came from the southwest and this plant is still getting used to Virginia seasons. I got it at a local gardener sale, not a professional garden center, so who knows how far away it originated.

Not enough remaining snow here for a good pic, so show Jan 2016 w/longleaf pine shouldering a heavy snow burden.

I just took these while shoveling driveway.

Some kind of ornamental grass

Forsythia bush

Maple tree

Erica X darleyensis; I think this one is 'Ghost Hills'. Of course it's been blooming since December and sailed right through 7.7 F.

Winter mornings are fantasic =)

Lovely pictures everyone! I am in Milwaukee, WI and have no snow. In fact we have barely had anything all winter and we really need it!! Drought conditions for two years have left everything so dry. Today it was 40 degrees F again, 2nd time this week…..

debra

Stunning pic, Garen. We had a pretty sunrise this morning but i didn‘t get a pic - my view is nothing like yours!

from the kitchen window..2/4/22

and 11/22/21..

February.

Late afternoon shadows on unbroken snow in the field, late January.

Mid December, before snowfall.

November frost

March Hamamelis vernalis.

This is supposedly Helleborus x lemonnierae HGC Madame Lemonnier. It is ahead of my other hellebores - presumably because of the H. niger parentage. Sorry for the out of focus picture.

Afternoon glow, prepared for gathering.

There was a typical February snow event today, light, water-laden, borderline rain event..., the kind that likes to melt, my favorite!

Snow on the Eastern Hemlocks

Snow on Southern Magnolias and Photinia 'Red Tip'

Snow on Atlas Cedar

Snow on Windmill palm (Trachycarpus fortunei)

Currently snowing here in the Philadelphia suburbs.  Very peaceful.

This is me:

The ice shows the basin of my rain garden water management project of the last four years:

Warmer times:

A light dusting this morning that was gone by noon. I know better, winter isn't over.

The snowdrops are out. Imagine seeing this world with what I hope is an easy fix secondary.cataracts.

I sometimes watch it but not in the mode for anything 'super' today LOL.

Snow on the boughs of my Redwood 'Soquel'.

The plain old American holly berries have been eaten by the birds but so far they are skipping these Highclere Holly 'James G Esson' ones. Fine with me, and Doug Tallamy LOL. (speaking of Tallamy, anybody know what happened to sam_md? It's well known that the 'real' IDs of various people on this forum are known by some members. Perhaps he has departed this mortal coil...if so, we thank him for his contributions to horticulture and our forum)

An Abies alba in the foreground with a much larger Abies firma in the background. I will be moving this and another Abies alba from an area they cannot stay any longer. One might be for sale - serious enquiries only. Msg me. I will definitely replant at least one elsewhere on my property.

'Wisley Supreme' with cicada damage still visible on stems.

A smallish Picea orientalis with a dusting of snow back in January.

Nice Dean, It's a shame they aren't planted more often. I have a 10" seedling that will take years to get even that big, but it will get planted somewhere.

Well winter is officially over but unofficially it is most definitely is not! We are expecting a very hard freeze tomorrow and Monday nights, which will kill the open flowers on this Camellia 'Destiny'.

BTW I was talking with another Maryland horticulturalist today - IRL - we are convinced it is one and the same Sam of Harford County that we know, and that he's fine. Hope that is the case and he is just no longer contributing here.