Garden Journal – Dec 4, 2006 – 2:30 pm.

Just in from the garden, shaking the snow out of my books and scarf, from trying to assess the damage of last week’s snow dump of 16 inches. I say “trying” to assess because some of the plants are still horizontal under many pounds of wet slush. I pulled a Golden bamboo off my Goumi tree, and hope that sheared off stump I am seeing through the mush and leaves is not its trunk. Still too heavy to move any more snow to investigate further so I’ll try in a day or so.

The evergreen Magnolia is also shattered into a few pieces. I suppose the trick will be to cut damaged branches off shear so that rain will slide off instead of settling into wounds and pockets. And I will pull away the snapped limbs and trim them down and stick them in pots of soil to see if I can save some for the nursery. The nice thing about a garden disaster is lots of pups to start over with. The damaged plants will hopefully fluff out from the sheared areas on their own. I am thinking of my mother’s Aucuba – the deer chomped a bare spot right off the front and she swore about it for weeks, but it grew back much thicker and richer than the rest of the plant so we could begin to see the wisdom of a good deer attack. And speaking of – there are deer tracks all through the garden this week, and I am wondering how many winter greens I will salvage from the hungry critters this year. It might be worth my while to drag a bale of mulching straw out for them to munch on until the grass comes clear again. Meanwhile, I have pulled gates closed and put a tarp over the missing piece of fence (still haven’t cleaned up from the wind storm!).

Had two strange experiences in the last few hours – strange for December, anyways. I reached for my water cup and found a decent sized slug on the rim of it!! I figure it fell off the lemon tree on top of the bookcase.  And while gluing bits of stuff to an art project, decided to glue that snail shell in my “clutter box” to a piece of wood, but when it picked it up it was waving its antennae at me … so I took them outside under the porch where the snow is less, meanwhile wondering if I had interrupted a strange Mollosc Meeting …

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