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BTW - it looks like you had the snow and we had the cold. The temperatures up here on the northern prairies were lower than -35 C and if you include the windchill it was lower than -50 C for over a week. However, there is only a sprinkling of snow covering the ground. Usually by now we have more than a foot. We worry about losing perennials this year.

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Yep we got two feet of snow last week. Now how can that happen when we are 'officially' below the snow level? Well, it sometimes happens when the wind is blowing hard from a specific direction.

Gads, if I had the kind of weather you are experiencing, I wouldn't even poke my nose out my door!

I love periennials, and they seemingly survive anything, in fact bloom better for me after an extremely cold winter. The purple coneflowers seemingly LOVE freezes, even if I don't. Their color is even more impressive the next spring and summer following a miserable winter. The same holds true for my large oregano patch and the various varieties of rosemary growing around the landscape.

Let's hope you find yourself quite amazed at how the plant world protects themselves and even prospers from what we consider hardships, the proof manifesting next spring.

The bulb world also loves cold and freezes. My daffodils and irises are the prettiest in the spring after a colder winter.



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