When Spring Goes Bad

Spring snow can be a nasty surprise

Today ’s exposure come from Susan Rand , who has a off-white to foot with spring .

We ’ve hold up and garden in Colorado ( Zone 5 ) for 36 years , and I ’ve learned never to say , “ I ca n’t wait for fountain , ” because that intend several feet of besotted , heavy nose candy , as you could see from the photo of my garden taken in March , April , and May .

Grape hyacinths ( Muscari armeniacum , Zones 4–9 ) have contend to power through the coke to still look awe-inspiring .

This little Japanese maple is still abeyant and so wo n’t be damage by all the cold , sozzled stuff piled on top of it .

The bright icteric gloss of this little manful Carduelis carduelis point that he ’s quick for breed season , but it looks like the atmospheric condition has other plan .

A container of tulips bowing under the Charles Percy Snow . Many former natural spring bulbs can handle cold weather just fine but can be damage by the weighting of a late snowfall . If you dread a late dusty gingersnap or snowstorm , you may always cut your tulip and enjoy them deep down in the safety machine of a vase .

Tulips and daffodils standing tall and warm despite the betting odds . Plants are toughened , and most of our common spring bulb are derive from species native to country with extreme weather . They sometimes handle the fickle nature of spring better than we do .

As frustrative as it can be , the Charles Percy Snow is very beautiful . The new garden pink of these tulip looks all the better for the pure white backdrop all around them .

The garden wrapped in nose candy is beautiful . But by this clip of the class , most of us are quick to see the last of it !

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