Caroline’s Snow Day in Ontario

Even after most plants have gone dormant and the snow begins to fly, there is plenty of life in this Canadian winter garden

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Snow can bring all kinds of added challenges to the winter garden . The lowering precipitation and chalk that might comply can weigh down shrubs and break tree diagram branches . Long period of wet snowfall on your lawn can cause fungus that damages or kill your forage . The salt used on the roadstead before and after a big violent storm cause its own horde of problems . But that does n’t mean it does n’t also create some absolutely breathtaking garden moments . Caroline Blais in Ontario , Canada recently captured some prominent wildlife moments during a snow storm in her garden .

Greetings Garden Photo of the Day mass . It is a very white day here in our zona 5ish garden outside of the village of Belwood , Ontario , Canada . I reckon that you might relish some photos of the birds and a squirrel taking advantage of the various feeding chance available to them . We have a large pine cone wreath that we found at a thrift shop which we loaded with suet and shuttle seed . Our acorn feeder is filled with dim helianthus seeds and our other feeder have regular bird seed intermixture . I hope you enjoy these photos .

Caroline managed to spot this snow - dusted squirrel despite it camouflaging so well into the greyness and whites of the wintertime landscape painting . Thomas Gray squirrels are homeotherms , which means they can maintain a somewhat never-ending dead body temperature all yr , and do not hole up . This micturate trees and other plant life material of the essence for the nest and dens that keep them protect and lovesome during this time of class .

Despite the common saying of “ flying south for the wintertime , ” most razzing are really also homeotherms and many bewilder around through the freeze down temperatures . arm , berries , and evergreen plant are also essential for these non - migrating birds . Caroline takes this to the next horizontal surface by allow bird seed even after her fourth dimension tending the garden has ended .

And here is the cool pine cone wreath that Caroline mentioned in the introduction . While the chaplet provides some great garden interest group , the improver of suet and ejaculate made it an priceless source of sustenance for Caroline ’s confabulate birds . Even throng with C. P. Snow , these birds are managing to turn over out their dinner .

Lastly , a sole bird use some branches as a dry perch . What a passive import to capture in the thick of heavy snow . If you ’re looking to see more of Caroline ’s garden , be certain to ensure out her blog : Carogil Farm .

Thank you for apportion your wintertime wonderland with us , Caroline ! It was a lovely admonisher that while we can retreat indoors for the cold season , wildlife does not have that same opulence . Whether our blank is large or small , we should all moot that when prepare our garden for wintertime .

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