The ground has been covered in snow while the Larch trees have shed their needles.
Category Archives: Windbreak Trees
November Snow
It hasn’t been very cold this fall yet, but now that has changed with some snow. Bamboo was bent down to the ground with the heavy snow. A Paulownia tree looks like a bunch of cold fingers. Bigfoot Willow Hybrid trees shrugged off the snow. The snow did start to melt and a petunia kept […]
Blue Yellow Green
A Japanese Larch mixed perfectly with the green grass below and the blue sky above.
Windbreak Goat Pasture
These young windbreak trees used to be part of a goat pasture. Now they help in winter to protect the goats from the North winds.
Dark Forest
The evergreen windbreak seems lifeless and dark.
Windbreak Orchard View
This is the view of the windbreak and orchard. The apple trees are flowering right now.
Another Ice Storm
There has already been an ice storm this winter and now another one happened. Some frost before the freezing rain. Heavy snowpack combined with layers of ice. Roof with heavy layer of snow and ice. Layers of ice falling off panel fence. Japanese Larch tree top bent all the way to the ground. Winter Wonderland […]
Covered In Ice
Freezing Rain can happen in the winter and can damage a lot when glazing everything with ice. The Green Ash tree(Fraxinus) split from the weight of the ice and hit the chicken shed. The icy trees waiting for the Sun’s warmth to melt the ice off them. Evergreens really capture a lot of the freezing […]
Snow Adds Up
With cold temperatures and little snow melting, more snow storms keeps adding to the snowpack. Ponderosa Pines(Pinus ponderosa) are getting buried under the snowdrifts that are forming.
Fast Growing Trees
Fast Growing Trees will mature faster than other trees. Pictured above is a Bigfoot Willow Hybrid that is about 20 years old. This tree grew very fast and is as large as century old oaks. There is a reason people grow fast growing trees for purposes like windbreaks and screens. They get results a lot […]