Well i had been making great progress on cleaning up dead leaves and clipping branches and then this whole blizzard happened and my plans for cutting down the tall grasses this Sat went in the trash!
Tue, these guys came up for food! they "are" alive from the winter. (not sure after the storm on wed....)
sorry bad phone pic.


the pond is really gross on the walls that that will be the first project this spring, drain, scrub and refill. hoping my Iris froze enough and I get a first bloom this spring.

Goldfish can freeze solid in a pond, thaw out the next spring, and take off like nothing happened. Koi will die if frozen solid. We have both and I always have to baby the koi when cold comes.

wow so i have lacked updating this... Sorry.
im just gonna throw in a ton of pics, somewhat in a time frame

from April:

waiting on warmer weather for veggies but got the stay out of my garden Sierra, fence up.


my weeping tree got hit with the snow storm and the buds got killed




this snow storm...

May:









June:


been waiting a year to see this bloom and know what color it was!


pond is doing well, had to replace one plant that did not come back

July:


got the hail protection up over the veggies.

I thought i had some full ones of the front of the house, guess i should go out and take some.

looks like everyone's gardens are looking good this yr!

The weeping tree in the snow just looks do sad! it will come back though, right? Your pond just turned out so awesome! I love the look of it and that lily (?) is just beautiful, all your flowers are! Your vegetable garden is doing so much better than mine!

beautiful pond, nice fish. i didn't know that gold fish could freeze and come back to live lol, that's very cool. very beautiful flowers and nice hail protection for your garden.