Winter Jasmine

I'd praise anything that blooms in February, but I love how the winter jasmine really lights up a gray, wet winter day.

Best $2 I ever spent at a plant sale.

Pretty, but Fleeting

We got about 6" of wet snow last night.  It was already melting by dawn.  It was quite pretty, but quite heavy.

It's exactly for wet snows like this that I do the turkey truss on some of the soft evergreens, otherwise the snow breaks them and leaves them misshapen.  I can live with the evergreen hostage look if the trees can survive the winter unscathed.