Tuesday, August 21, 2018

A proper winter?

Usually when I wake up feeling cold it just means I have kicked off too many blankets while sleeping.  This morning it was still very cold in the family room and when I opened the drapes this is what I saw.
I get very few frosts where I live. After all this is the sub-tropics and I am close to the sea. Since I have lived  here I have only had one frost that damaged leaves of shrubs and trees. This morning was not nearly that severe so my banksia rose was still flowering - even more flowers out since last week. I have a friend that calls this my 'demon rose' because it is so hard to keep it from growing up onto the roof of the house. When that happens ants use the plant as a highway into the house and then I have real problems. The rose has been pruned extra hard this year and I wonder if that has contributed to its extra strong flowering.

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10 comments:

  1. You could almost go ice skating on your lawn.

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  2. Lovely frost and great blue skies too!

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  3. Reminds me of one April visit to the Isle of Mann. On the date for leaving it was blowing a blizzard and all the locals kept saying 'It never snows here in April'. With the snow and the gale it was an 'interesting' crossing on the ferry back to Liverpool.

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  4. Ooooh that looks cold. The rose is beautiful.. I haven't heard of a Banksia rose before.

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  5. so how cold does it get once winter comes?

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  6. Roses in the snow! Or OK in the frost. Still .... what a surprise to see when you first opened your curtains .... it is still quite early in the winter is it not? Hope this doesn't mean it will be colder than usual for you.

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  7. That surprised me, that you have frosts of any sort.

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  8. Ooops Frost! ~ great photos and cooled us off ~ hot here in MA

    Happy Day to you,
    A ShutterBug Explores

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  9. It's very beautiful (in your photos)... I'd rather see frost in pictures (and I imagine you too, even if it did make some gorgeous photo ops.

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