Winter Damage and Spring Recovery

Growing after a heartbreaking winter

Today Karla Roady in Roseburg , Oregon , is partake some highs and lows from her garden . It is a good reminder that not everything in the garden is always perfect , but industrial plant can recover from a pot .

As in most of the country , unearthly atmospheric condition pip this February in southwest Oregon . Here in Roseburg , we once in a while get 4 inches of snow , which is gone by noon . Now , do n’t express mirth , but this twelvemonth we got 16 to 18 inches — not much , but it came as wet , heavy snow that stuck on the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree for five days . And those trees , beautiful oak tree , madrones , and evergreen , broke under the weight . But then spring come , the most beautiful spring we ’ve had in year , reacting to all the blow and rainfall seeping deeply into the solid ground .

One of the many split oaks damaged by the weight unit of the Charles Percy Snow . This one is awaiting remotion .

Sambucusnigra(black elderberry , zone 5–8 ) in full blossom this leap , looking perfect and whole by the Charles Percy Snow .

The same plant in the previous photo is the bare stem in the back of this image . It was gravely pruned just before the snowfall , sparing it serious damage .

Coral barque maple ( Acerpalmatum‘Sango Kaku ’ , zone 5–8 ) before the snow damage , in full autumnal resplendency .

Here is the same tree , broken by the weightiness of weighty , wet nose candy .

The coral bark maple afterward , with the damage branches cut off . Will it pull through ? plant are knotty and often pull through things you ’d never think they could survive .

The coral bark maple a little later . It has leafed out profusely , so there are grounds to be cautiously optimistic !

Rhododendron‘Lem ’s Monarch ’ ( Zones 6–8 )

Rhododendron‘Hallelujah ’ ( zone 5–8 )

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