Good morning, and here comes the dark. Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.
This week in Denver we had a repeat of last week in Denver: we started out very warm, and on Wednesday were walloped with snow. So I'm cheating and using extra photos from last week. On Halloween the official high was 71° at the airport and 76° in the city; on Tuesday and Wednesday the airport low was 10° and 12° in town.
Luckily, having seen the Halloween forecast, I stopped at the grocery store on the way home from work Monday and picked up a few more bags of candy. It was a good thing, as we had a steady stream of trick or treaters from 6:00 until about 8:30 and we would have run out of treats without the addition. As is, we ended up with enough leftovers to keep Da Boys satisfied this week.
The differences with this week's snow was that the ground and pavement started out colder so the roads were icier; we didn't get quite as heavy a snowfall; and it was windy. We didn't have power outages like we did the previous week, either — maybe because the vulnerable trees and branches had already been broken.
And, another skiff of wet is forecast to come through this weekend. I guess the transition into the cold weather season is complete with the changeover to standard time tomorrow.
Last Sunday it was really too wet to be planting anything, but I was worried that the daylily tubers would suffer if they were bagged up much longer so I gingerly, and with great care, tiptoed across the soaked ground to plant them.
It was so nice on Monday that, at least along the walkways, it was dry enough to do a little more planting, so I dug a few trenches and layered in hyacinths or tulips at the bottom, followed by a layer of crocus and rock garden iris.
So, despite my diligent efforts I still have a big box of bulbs sitting in my living room, waiting to be planted, thanks to two snowy Wednesdays. However, according to NOAA in Boulder, I may have a shot at getting the rest of them in the ground Thanksgiving weekend:
AFTER A MILD EARLY TO MIDDLE OCTOBER, 2011, THE WEATHER PATTERN QUICKLY SHIFTED TO WINTERLIKE DURING THE FINAL WEEK. THIS COLD AND MOIST PROGRESSIVE PATTERN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE FIRST HALF OF NOVEMBER, 2011. A PATTERN OF DRYER AND MORE MILD WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED FOR THE FINAL HALF.
And, if not, at least the cold storage area is now cold enough to store them.
That's what's happening here. What's going on in you garden?