Good morning, and it just ain't right. Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.
Our weirdly variable weather here in Denver, which started with a sudden, brutal freeze in early November, has continued. We started December with warm temperatures — on December 12 I was in shirtsleeves and the high was 66°.
Christmas brought with it Christmassy weather: a blast of arctic cold and snow. Thank gawd for the snow protecting the perennials when the low went to a record-breaking -19° on the 30th.
The sky cleared and we warmed up a bit yesterday… but we are forecast to get another blast of snow today.
The whipsawing fall temperatures have left me with the unfamiliar, dappled shadows in the front yard. Many trees had their leaves frozen in place by the sudden, deep cold of early November. And, despite bouts of wind since that November freeze…
... the leaves remain on the trees. My lizard brain can't quite reconcile the low, solstice angle of the sun with leaf shadows.
It's kind of unsettling.
That's what's happening here. What's going on in your gardens?