Category Archives: Trees and Shrubs

Catkins

The year of 2006 was a year of masting. The Summer of 2007, a lot of immature acorns dropped, and 2007 was not a year of masting. This Spring, there was an abundance of catkins.
Piles of them could be seen where the wind had blown them against road edges. Whether or not 2009 proves [...]

Finally

Snow at last! Here it is February 2nd, Groundhog Day, the middle of the Winter season, but now it actually looks like Winter. I never would have thought that I would actually have missed the stuff, but it sure is good to see some.
Now if all of my plants haven't frozen solid and died I'll [...]

Strangeness

The deep freeze of Winter has set in. For a while I was beginning to wonder. I still wonder.
The first lasting snowfall in the Pioneer Valley has always been at different times. I remember years when it was before Halloween and other years when it was after Christmas. But here it is the end of [...]