Winter Patrol

We had some reasonably deep snow Friday/Saturday seeing as I was heading out anyway I decided to take some photos of the guys on patrol on the way back although my hands just wanted to ge tback home and ge twarm so I didn't put a smuch effor tin a sI probably should have.

Unfortunately at the Botanics we've been brushing snow off the plants and checking them for damage and there's been plenty, we had to call in the tree gang for a big branch high up on one of the pines, a Choisya's been split down the stems, an Eriobtrya (Loquat) was damaged just after I pruned it last week as was a Judas Tree and a Rhododendron, we've had several Camellias damaged at least one severly ripped and a Syringia uprooted! goodness only knows what we'll find tomorrow



You probably wouldn't know it by these photos and the depth of snow but, Scott's trying out the snowshoes which I managed to poke the elastic or whatever you call it back through the hole so it'll stay on his feet on Friday while I was sorting/tidying

Finally the view across Rivelin Valley

Great pics! Sorry to hear about your trees/plants damage...
My Joes have Spring fever and want winter to end...lol

Sorry to hear about the damage caused to the plants and trees at the botanical Scott :-( Though I must say all that snow makes for great Action man play time :-). Great pictures

super shots scott, they look great

Fantastic pictures Scott , that's quite a lot of snow you had there.
The last picture of the landscape looks very nice. All the more so in snow I think.
Great to see you made the most of it by getting these lil fella's out. They look very at home out in the snow. Great uploads !

inntruderr61 wrote:

Great pics! Sorry to hear about your trees/plants damage...
My Joes have Spring fever and want winter to end...lol

Thanks mate just shows how bad the snow wa sand probably the wind as well pllus the plants starting into growth, every day we seem to have been finiding more damged stuff . I've got to agree with you I'm not really much of a one for hot summer weather but, I'm looking forward to the nice gentle warmth of spring to being able to wear some lighter clothes and enjoy the warmth.

Sparkys6887 wrote:

Sorry to hear about the damage caused to the plants and trees at the botanical Scott :-( Though I must say all that snow makes for great Action man play time :-). Great pictures

Indeed I love snow but, as I said to the guys at work this time it's crossed the line one of the gardeners had a bit of an overreaction to all the damage it's certainly a real shame that it's damaged so many nice plants so bad and indeed that we've lost a couple and on an area which I normally maintain more the ptiy but, I've got to say I'm not going to get to upset about it and I've enjoyed all the pruning now I'm looking forward to getting back to BTCV our boss was off on holiday last week and we didn't have much cover so we had the week off plus snow cancelled Tuesdays task.

actionman2272 wrote:

super shots scott, they look great

Thanks mate glad you like them have left the guys out on patrol at Botanics while I'm at BTCV tomorrow I'm planning on going in over the Bank Holidays as usual (weekends are long enough for me I just get bored and lazy) so they won't be on their own to long

ghost recon wrote:

Fantastic pictures Scott , that's quite a lot of snow you had there.
The last picture of the landscape looks very nice. All the more so in snow I think.
Great to see you made the most of it by getting these lil fella's out. They look very at home out in the snow. Great uploads !

Thanks we had a reasonable depth there's still plenty left piled up in the garden, outside the gate on Saturday morning where we hadn't shovelled it it was about 28cm I thought those outfits would look good in the snow

Awesome valley shot.. Its perfect for me as I have not seen the UK before so any local shots are AWESOME!!!!

Thanks

Great photos

Ice cool photos to help keep you cool on hot days  

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