VIOLAS ON ICE

I am always so pleased when I see that people from different places, different countries, have taken the time to visit my website and read my posts, and look at the images I provide.  It often makes me wonder who you are and where you are living, and what your life is like.  Gardeners all seem to have one thing in common - complaints about the weather.  When I lived in the Caribbean, it was virtually impossible to grow some plants because of the heat and I have found that I can grow a much wider range of plants high on the Pennine Mountains of West Yorkshire, England.  It can be so windy here, so cold in winter, that it is surprising that anything survives.  But this isn't the Antarctica, nor is it the Arctic, and plants do.   Take the viola for example...

Large patch of white on the violas is snow that has not yet thawed.



Violas are survivors

It's incredible to think that I was growing violas throughout summer too.  Amazing.  If I was outside all night in the freezing cold, with nothing to protect me, I'd be dead as a doornail by the morning.  You betcha!