I know we have all seen plenty of snow but here are some more pictures that might be of interest to some of you.

Opuntia engelmannii in Sequim.

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Nice monkey puzzle just a couple blocks from me. I think these look especially nice in the snow.

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Nursery with snow on it. The nursery flats left lying around make kind of a cool shape under the snow.

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My greenhouse and Blue Mountain/Deer Park

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More new snow. Aralia spinosa and Magnolia grandiflora

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Magnolia grandiflora. Not a single branch broke, because it had been pruned hard in the past.

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back yard, as yet undeveloped

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Potted cacti... huddled together for warmth?

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Nursery... the part that had to stay outside

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Tumbleweeds that sort of got soaked and rotted in place before they had a chance to blow away

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Now we go to Olympia, where I had a garden for a long time and where I was for Christmas to visit family. A lot of the eucalyptus and other plants I planted there are still alive and well. The following 5 pictures were taken by my brother in the week before Christmas. The next few pictures are from BEFORE the really big snow fell in Olympia. This is the entrance to the euc garden with E. nitens at left.

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Cactus/alpine garden (a few plants still barely visible) and Phyllostachys vivax

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eucalyptus trunk

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Left/center, Grevillea victoriae already starting to flop. At right, Cupressus lusitanica var lindleyi and others

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Green Cove on Cooper Point. I used to go hiking/exploring in here when I was younger, but there have been so many landslides and washouts it's pretty much impassible at this point.

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The following pictures were taken by me on Christmas day. Lower drive with Senecio greyi, Pensetmon barretiae, Hebes, Penstemon davidsonii, Quercus rugosa, Phygelius, Fascicularia bicolor, I forget what else... I guess I'll find out when it melts

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35' tall Phyllostachys rubromarginata. Unfortunately I was out there a bit too early to get very good lighting... as you can see in many of the following pictures.

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Lots of plants, but Podocarpus salignus is the only one still standing. It handles the snow very well.

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Acacia pravissima buds. It bottomed out at about 20 degrees here, probably not cold enough to damage this.

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Access road, Eucalyptus dalrympleana at right (planted 1996, froze to the ground in December 98 but came back)

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buried garden with only the trees sticking up. That euc at right fell down before.... we cut it off and now it's leaning again.

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Baby Jubaea. This has been in the ground about 7 years; I'm not too worried about it. Needs more sun though.

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Grevillea victoriae 'Marshall's Seedling', G. aquifolium, Callistemon sieberi, eucs, and... I forget what else is under all that snow.

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Cactus garden, Araucaria bidwillii at right

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Araucaria bidwillii, Grevillea 'Poorinda Queen', Leptospermum humifusum (where?), Ugni molinae

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Euc forest. A lot of these trees were already leaning. This will look cool in a few years if everything lives.

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Phyllostachys vivax. surprisingly not-crushed

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Aracuaria angustifolia and Euc neglecta. they're fine

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Euc parvula

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Pinus patula. It already lost its top last year in a windstorm so not much else can go wrong with it this time around.

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Top of Pseudopanax ferox

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10' tall Grevillea victoriae leaning over, but it should bounce back - it always has before. At right, Phormium cookianum and Callistemon viridiflorus

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Top of Cupressus lusitanica var. lindleyi snapped off... bummer.

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Top of Embothrium bent all the way to the ground. Hey now I can reach the seeds! This might need some help standing back up.

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Lagarostrobos franklinii

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Had enough yet?

Trachcarpus that looked like a fortunei x wagnerianus when I bought it

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Chusquea valdiviensis now 50' up in a Sitka Spruce! Looks like I found the right spot for that.

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Hebe 'Stephen Spencer'. Lots of other things

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Cordyline australis 'Baueri'. I think this will make it.

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Backyard with Cordyline australis. Pinus pinea at right

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Backyard Christmas afternoon... sun is out, yay!!

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