April weather is usually mild with lots of sun and showers, most of the nights are fairly warm, and even if we do get some frost it’s usually mild and we’re able to go through it without any damage. This is why at the end of March I’ve ordered a bunch of flower seedlings. As the end of March was surprisingly hot I had to plant my flowers earlier. I couldn’t water them enough in their small pots. I even kept them in buckets full of water but as soon as I got them out the pots dried up. So I’ve planted everything out.
As soon as I finished with planting we got the new weather report that predicted snow on April 6th and 7th. I thought they were overexaggerating and that we’d get a short snow episode but I still took some precautions and covered all the flowers with agrotextile.
But then the weather worsened and the snow just started covering everything. I can’t remember the last time we had so much snow in April. The branches were cracking under so much weight so I spent the whole day shaking the bushes and branches to save them from breaking.
The garden flowers, however, did get frostbites even though they were covered. Some like spurflowers have just a couple of top leaves frozen, while others, like Coleus were completely gone. Even the agrotextile didn’t help.
The garden shrubs and trees have also been affected. Red currants have frozen, as did the early plum. Cherries have some flowers that have survived and others are gone. Apples luckily didn’t get affected as the flowers are still in the bud stage. Rose leaves got burned but the new branches are still alive.
The cold weather lasted for 3 days and just as we got the flowers out again another episode of the bad weather has started.
This time there was no snow, it has been raining for the past 24 hours. We can now hope that the cold and snow will stay in the hills and there will be no snow or frost.
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