IVOM: Rescued from the weather

Our dangerously low overnight temperatures mean that all my special plants are being protected with bins and boxes. Tonight looks like our last day with a freezing overnight low temp, 32°F.

I have been holding all the plants that have arrived by mail or curbside pickup at local nurseries in a wheelbarrow and boxes so they can be quickly brought indoors at night and returned outside during the day time hours. But yesterday, I gave up and brought everyone inside mid-afternoon when it started to snow. It came down heavily enough that it began to stick to the deck and covered the roof of the fence across the back garden.

The living room is the holding spot for herbs and a few perennials.

The wheelbarrow in the garage has Epimediums, Tricyrtis and Veronicastrums.

The front hall is packed with everything else . . .

including this Rhodie atlanticum that has started to bloom.

Luckily I took advantage of more pleasant weather Saturday afternoon and clipped enough flowers to put together an assortment of vases. 

This Tulip and the Muscari grow in full sun in gravelly soil in the traffic island bed in the street. I plant and maintain this little bed which is directly in front of my house.

I have a trio of white pitchers that Ipurchased because I loved their shapes and thought they would be perfect as vases. But photographing them as a group is always difficult, between finding the room to pose all three together and enough light to show their contents in their true colors.

They are filled with Daffodils, Tulip sylvestnis, Epimedium, Fritillaria, Lamium and a Peony.

I opened the window shutters to increase the light! 

A pair of Tulip 'Schoonoord' circle Paeonia japonica with Hyacinth 'City of Haarlem' in the rear. 

To see what other gardeners have put in a vase today, visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden who hosts this lively and lovely Monday meme. 

Comments

[Kristin]

Your IVOM offerings are always so lovely. I hope your weather improves soon. We haven't been nearly as cold as you, but I've still covered my tomatoes and basil, and brought in the pots for a couple of nights.

[Kristin]

Your IVOM offerings are always so lovely. I hope your weather improves soon. We haven't been nearly as cold as you, but I've still covered my tomatoes and basil, and brought in the pots for a couple of nights.

[Frank]

Enough with the cold. I have to keep moving outside to keep warm, and I'd so much rather sit in the sun.
My garage is a little crowded, but nothing like your hallway! Good for you.

[Kris P]

You made lemonade from the lemons of your cold weather snap, Linda. Each of your vases is wonderful but I'm especially enamored with the peonies of course. I hope this was indeed you very last freeze.

[Barbara H.]

You are being overrun with plants! Hope the weather permanently improves soon for you - so annoying when you think it's safe but it's not.

[Loree / danger garden]

I am so sorry the weather is being so nasty! Hopefully this is truly the end and nothing but spring is ahead.

[Lisa at Greenbow]

Happy IAVOM. These look so springy while outside looks so wintery.