Garden's First Winter

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Three solar lights are topped with a few inches of snow in our butterfly garden. Skeletons of sedum and liatris poke up from the ground, their seeds long eaten by the finches.

This is the butterfly garden's first winter; the garden in infancy, so to speak. With the harsh winter winds, I'm half hoping the plants will come back in the spring!

Robert Guico

Rain chain, frozen with runoff from the roof.

Robert Guico

Three solar lights are topped with a few inches of snow in our butterfly garden. Skeletons of sedum and liatris poke up from the ground, their seeds long eaten by the finches.

This is the butterfly garden's first winter; the garden in infancy, so to speak. With the harsh winter winds, I'm half hoping the plants will come back in the spring!

Photo: Robert Guico

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With seven inches of snow on the ground and more falling, I snapped these pictures of our garden, long dormant. This winter has been as rough as last year, with well over 30 inches of snow through early January - twice the normal amount of snowfall. The garden also survived complete submersion during record flooding in September.

The garden is located in Carol Stream, Illinois (USDA zone 5).

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