I haven't seen the front walk garden since it was buried in deep snow after Christmas. With warmer temperatures and some thawing over the past few days, that sun-warmed space melted, and the poor bedraggled plants are visible again.
The little bun shaped chamaecyparis are misshapen from heavy snow loads. The Birds Nest Spruces are sturdier and flatter shaped and survived better.
Everything is still wobbly and "unrooted" feeling in the soft wet earth; the voles did so much damage this fall. I sprinkled more rat poison in their holes and around the bushes, but they may already be gone from the first application back in December, I can't tell.
The weather station bit the dust. The 2 x 4 pole it was mounted on, formerly a birdhouse pole, broke off at the base and keeled over in the snow. You can't tell here, but apparently the base was all rotted.
It's now in the garage; we'll have to figure out a new arrangement for mounting the instruments.
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