Little winter wonderland

The banana trees are all wrapped up (apart from a few of the larger ones), the apple tree is all bare and has lost its leaves, the nectarine tree is bare too, the blackberry bush needs some pruning and the vegetable patch is empty with a few hardy shoots of green manure peering through the remaining ice and snow. It's not very exciting at the moment in Cowick Garden. The paving and fencing is collapsing in certain parts too so in the spring we will have to look into replacing most of our paving and repairing a large part of our fence.

Though the snow caused quite a bit of havoc and the banana trees certainly didn't enjoy it, it was very pretty to look at, so below are a few photos of Cowick Garden wrapped up in a fluffy blanket of snow. You can make out the brown withered leaves of a couple of the larger banana trees in a few of the photos and on one you can just about see the leaves of the bamboo under all the snow. Many of the palms struggled under the weight of the snow and some bent down almost blocking the way to the rest of the garden. The garden table shows exactly how much snow fell in one night.