This week’s weather has been a repeat of last week’s. Strong winds at the beginning of the week with a beautiful, warm, sunny day on Wednesday (perfect for gardening and, well, just being outside); with the clear skies a heavy frost descended during the night so that again I woke to an almost white world.
The combination of cold and wind means that now, when I look out of my kitchen window I can see a lot more sky and the stems of the Wisteria are silhouetted against a blue sky.
I’m not sure how the plants are coping with these extremes in temperature. In the greenhouse the high, with the door and windows wide open reached 32.1°C and the low fell to just 0.5°C.
On the slope starry, white, ice crystals decorated the foliage making it appear that all the plants were variegated varieties!
The usual view, even the fields around are white today
Euphorbia – not so happy in the cold
A lone half-eaten Persimmon remains on the now leafless tree.
Variegated cistus? No, but might be nice
Variegated cistus? No, but might be nice
White-edged foliage of Solanum jasmonoides
The lower slope is a frost pocket
Hardly any green to be seen
Seed-heads left standing repay us with their icy beauty
Seed-heads left standing repay us with their icy beauty
Creating my own garden of the Hesperides 
Great frosty photos. Your weather sounds pretty nice. Temperatures will be very mild here today but cloudy, cloudy. Enjoy your sunshine!
I don’t mind the cold if the sun shines, actually it is even warm in the sun.
Your Euphorbia might not be feeling too happy, ( and who can blame them?) but I think they are looking great. Lovely photos.
Chloris
That’s a heavy frost and a lot for the plants to cope with if it is followed by warm sun. The frost has given you a spectacular sparkle to the view, though.
Amazingly the plants seem to be coping well, some will suffer but for the moment all are surviving.
so serene! your euphorbia look like marching snow zombies…like that one on “game of thrones”…
Sorry, I have no idea what you’re talking about, no children here to have those games!
Haaa! Not a kids show at all…best show on TV! Based on books….
The garden looks magical in the frost Christina! 😀
The days are so lovely at the moment, frosty mornings and sun-filled days, I’m enjoying the garden very much.
Gorgeous images Christina, your garden has wonderful winter structure with the foliage, trees and seedheads. But what extremes in your greenhouse!
Thanks Janet, sometimes I think I like the garden more in late autumn and winter than I do in summer; well, certainly more than in August.
Does it normally get so cold? You seem to be having harder frosts than us!
I think it is colder in central Italy in the winter than it is in southern England but that said we get lots of warm sunny days too.
Poor shivering plants! That Euphorbia makes me think of a big curly-haired dog who has just been given a bath.
What a wonderful image!
Those ice-edged leaves are beautiful.
Yes, I think more beautiful than a variagated plant somehow.
Heavy frost is unusual for us in our locale and that is exactly what I have in the garden. It will be that way for another week and I am starting to get nervous. I am really starting to wish for Spring.
Will the frost be there all day or will it melt in the day and be warm like here.
Icy beauty describes it perfectly!
Hope you are having a wonderful day!
Lea
Thanks Lea, it is a great day today.
While the plants may not be happy, I love the variegated look of your frosty garden.
The Euphorbia soon perked up, it will tke more than a quick frost to do any real harm.