Fleeting frozen beauty
Today ’s photos are from Laura .
After a sudden drop in temperature , my suburban Philadelphia garden was transformed with a shimmering finish of ice . Without much precaution but with my cell sound in hand , I managed to capture the magic as matureshrubsandevergreensglistened with ice that melt aside almost as chop-chop as it had constitute .
The cultivar name ofCupressus glabra‘Blue Ice ’ ( Zones 5–9 ) come to to the puritanic - white-haired cast to the foliage , but it is doubly appropriate in this scenery .
ThisIlexopaca(American holly , Zones 5–9)—along with some lights left over from the holiday — is draped with ice . Ice like this is fantastically beautiful , but it candamagesome Tree and shrubs with its weighting . Fortunately , this holly seems to be arrest up to it well .
A fowl feeder is indorse up by the ice - covered stems of an indigo shrub ( Indigoferasp . , zone 6–9 ) . Deciduous shrubs and trees are generally less potential to be damaged in an ice storm than those with leaves on them , and they look just as beautiful .
Nandinadomestica(Zones 5–9 ) berries are always beautiful , but they look even brighter with an icy backcloth .
Piceaabies(Norway spruce , Zones 2–7 )
Pinusstrobus‘Blue Shag ’ ( dwarf white pine , Zones 3–8 )
retentive needle from a regularPinus strobus(white pine tree ) hang down with a level of ice over them . The flexible branches of pine should bounce back as the ice melts by .
It is unbelievable to see the direction every particular of the veining of cherry laurel ( Prunuslaurocerasus , Zones 6–9 ) leaf is keep in the ice-skating rink . It is a marvelous work of nontextual matter , all the more beautiful for being so fleeting .
A Japanese umbrella true pine ( Sciadopitysverticillata , Zones 5–8 ) nods under the weight of the chalk .
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