Simply Balisha

Simply Balisha

Saturday, May 31, 2014

Perfection

This looks like a perfect Alpine Spruce, right?
 Well, here's the other side. Not so perfect..
Several of our trees looked like this. We have been told that we need to be patient...they will come back. Hard for some, when they want their yards to look perfect, but things in nature are often not perfect. The winter played a cruel trick on us and burned so many shrubs in our town. When we take a drive, we see hundreds of trees affected by the harsh winter. We took the advice to be patient and slowly but surely they are coming back. All of them have bright green new growth. It's interesting to me to see what variety of shrubs were affected. I think that the Alpine Spruce family was hit the hardest. Our Bird Nest Spruce trees...right next to these were not affected. The trees affected were all planted with the same exposure. I'll have to remember to show this tree at the end of the summer...to see if it has improved.

We finished the entry to the drive yesterday with a couple of flat, irregularly shaped stepping stones on each side. It was Joe's idea and I think it worked out well. The geraniums in the new pots are needing a drink quite often. It was really hot when they were planted, so they need a deep watering. I'll take some pictures later this weekend and show them the first of next week.

The Lamium is spreading and blooming now. I love the soft lavender blue flowers. When it's finished blooming it still looks pretty with the variegated leaves of green and silver.
I had better make this short and head into town. We shopped yesterday at the big store, but both of us thought the other had bought milk...you guessed it...no milk. We have donuts though :)
Balisha

8 comments:

  1. I haven't had a glazed donut in ages. Sounds delicious! Your email graphic does not work. I wanted you to know I not only read your comment, as they come to me in email, but I also commented on your comment.
    Brenda

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  2. Give the little trees a chance. I love lamium. Mine bloomed briefly and was done.
    We can't survive without milk. Funny how those things happen.

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  3. I think the long, cold winter hurt so many plants and trees...they will all come back, tho.
    hugs, bj

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  4. I see a lot of this kind of damage in the park where I live. They WILL come back--as I think my Lilacs, Forsythia and Privet Hedge will. Here's hoping we will also come back next spring to see it, LOL

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  5. I have seen a lot of people around here have dead spots in their trees too. It was a bad winter. I can tell on my Rhododendron bushes where the icicles ran down over them along the house. They were looking awful but new leaves are coming out. I would not give up on your spruce either. Have a lovely week.

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  6. Those are so pretty and I hope the one will come back just fine. We had a few plants to be affected by bitter cold even here in GA.

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  7. We are patiently waiting for the new growth to come out on all the evergreens. Joe is often quick to trim them, but this year, he'll wait until they have lots of new growth.

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  8. Hi Balisha,
    I have 16 Alberta Spruce shrubs and they all look just like that. Mine are slowly coming back, too. I also lost 5 golden privet shrubs & 2 butterfly bushes--at least I think so. They appear to be dead. I am going to give them a few more weeks before removing them. I have never seen such a hard winter on my shrubs!

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