Still cold, in the 30s. Rain coming, and we should have wet weather all the rest of the week.
I went out yesterday to check on what I could see of winter's legacy in the yard and meadow. Vole damage was visible everywhere.
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| 'Silver Cloud' redbud (you can see how high the snowpack was) |
Jim and I had put hardware cloth around the buckeyes, and to get it around the wide low branches we had to make big circles. The voles moved in, filled the wide circles with grass and nested inside the protectors!
Fortunately the buckeyes will be okay, damage is evident on lots of branches but not all of the multi stems. Same thing with the winterberry hollies; there are enough suckers and stems that the bushes will survive. Every single shrub and tree was gnawed somewhere on its stem.
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| the new Lespedeza, just planted last year |
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| Winterberry holly |
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| volunteer ash tree in the meadow (completely girdled all around) |
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