As the Christmas season continues, the absence of cold and snow seems quite strange and is due to the El Niño effect of a surge or warm water in the Pacific Ocean causing a marked change in the jet stream as compared to last year and the year before.
With Oregon hit with heavy snow this past weekend, will California be next for rain and snow to begin ending the multi-year drought?
The nursery is geared up for a finish for the year with cut trees at a minimum and a small supply of beautiful poinsettias.
Growing well too is the weed known as hairy bittercress as it did in the mild winter of 2012. Glyphosphate, or Round-up, is being sprayed in full force to kill this nuisance before it can flower and disseminate its seeds.
Another weed, commonly called bedstraw, that looks similar to sweet woodruff, is active too as it vines its way along the ground and consumes shrubs as it crawls over them.
With the winter solstice, the still shorter days will be done with the ever increasing day lengths afterwards.
We will slightly reduce our business hours beginning December 22 and will reopen briefly after Christmas day through year’s end before closing until the first of March.
Strangely, a lot of work still needs completed before spring, especially with the greenhouse growing operation and the never ending office work and the not-so-fun-but-necessary work of closing out the year for tax paying.
Right now though it’s time to enjoy the Christmas season.
Tom
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