The winter of 22013-2014 was bad - I wrote about it a lot last Spring. This past winter was worse. The only saving grace was that we did not have lots of thaws and freezes - therefore, not much ice. We had a prodigious amount of snow, though - well over 100 inches. The snow kept coming - we had four major snowstorms in four weeks. All of this snow, and the Town of Wellesley's diligent snow plowing, left me despairing for my poor plants.
I did not think this rhododendron was going to make it - but it has.
Spring has finally arrived - a few weeks late - to New England. Because it was tardy, all the plants seem to be playing catch up. I am happy to report that my delphinium - not always able to overwinter, have survived (a consistent snow cover, and a mulch of Christmas tree branches applied after the ground was frozen, may have helped.)
