After the Storm in Caroline’s Ontario Garden

After this garden gets a thick blanket of snow, there is still interest to be found and nutrients for visiting wildlife

Hi GPODers !

A few weeks ago we saw Caroline Blais ’ garden in Belwood , Ontario , Canada during a snowstorm ( Caroline ’s Snow Day in Ontario ) . Despite the frigid temperatures and lots of blow flying , Caroline was able to bewitch some smashing shots of birds and squirrels finding food and shelter in her bed . Today , we return to Caroline ’s garden to see how her landscape handle a very snow January .

Good morning , it has been a very snow-covered January in our geographical zone 5 garden outside of Fergus , Ontario Canada .

We used a thrifted pine cone chaplet as a bird feeder and fill the cone with a mixture of suet and shuttle cum . We hung the wreath on a wooden gate where I could look at the activity from the kitchen window . After a few day the chaplet disappear ( stealing squirrels perhaps ? ) … but we base it and hung it horizontally from a tree . We replenish the suet every couple of days .

Thank you and have a outstanding daytime !

Caroline Blais

This Canadian garden is looking appropriately coat in a thick cover of nose candy . Caroline expressed her want to contribute on a regular basis , and I ’m really hoping she continues to want to share . I ’m already itch to see what this view looks like in warmer and more coloured seasons !

It does n’t see like anyone is lead to be sitting and enjoying the scenery any time soon ! However , these bivalent Adirondack chairs let for a little mo of upbeat yellow to glint out from the coke and help create some pretty nerveless kind in the large drifts .

An American Red squirrel(Tamiasciurus hudsonicus ) visits Caroline and love the abundance of intellectual nourishment that she offer for local wildlife through winter . These squirrel can be set up throughout North America , and primarily feed on the seed and cones of evergreen Tree .

gratefully for squirrels and birds there are plenty of evergreen in Caroline ’s garden , which she also supplement with lots of additional seed in eater and wreath . Along with the welfare to wildlife , these evergreen plant ply even more structure for the C to make its nontextual matter on .

And here is the pinecone wreath that Caroline mentions at the top of this Charles William Post . While the wreath would have been a lovely piece of decor as is , I adore that she chose to add some seeds and suet for the birds that urgently require it during the harsh Canadian winter . Here , a beautiful female hairy woodpecker ( Leuconotopicus villosus ) is savor a hardy collation . Often confused with the flossy woodpecker , hairy woodpecker are larger , have longer beaks , and have apparent white tail feathers while the white tail plume on a downy are usually bespeckle with black .

And a pic after the coronal was lose , find and rehung for birdie to savor . Even covered in a backbreaking layer of snow , birds are able to grapple onto the pine cone and reach the suet .

A duet ofblack - crest chickadees(Poecile atricapillus ) stopping by the chaplet . Be sure to tick off out Caroline ’s earlier entry ( Snow Day in Ontario ) to see more birds that have jaw Caroline so far this wintertime .

A mark of very cold temperatures and some seriously “ mucilaginous ” C , just about every surface in Caroline ’s garden in covered . While it ca n’t compare to the vibrancy and colouring material of the warmer months , there is always a calm beauty in deciduous golf tee draped in a level of snow . The shining ornaments hanging from the arm append an extra cutaneous senses of glisten and fun .

Thank you for this snow - take update on your garden , Caroline ! We have n’t yet had a chance to see your landscape painting in full outpouring or summer halo , and enjoy your exposure so far has been like staring at your wrapped present on Christmas Eve . I ’m investigating the shapes and forms , admiring the simplicity and calm , but I sure desire we finally get to expose those presents one day to see the color and excitation that dwell beneath ! !

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