A White Christmas
Carolyn’s Shade Gardens is a retail nursery located in Bryn Mawr, PA, specializing in showy, colorful, and unusual plants for shade. The only plants that we ship are snowdrops and miniature hostas. For catalogues and announcements of events, please send your full name, location, and phone number (for back up use only) to carolyn@carolynsshadegardens.com. Click here to get to the home page of our website for catalogues and information about our nursery and to subscribe to our blog.
The London plane tree over my nursery sales area.
I was hoping for a white Christmas, but it is not to be so I guess I will have to make my own. The winters of 2010 and 2011 provided more than enough photographic material. Enjoy Carolyn’s Shade Gardens in the snow:
A winter dawn in my main terrace garden.
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Our dovecote engulfed in snow.
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during a snowstorm
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Looking up from the production beds towards the house and terraces.
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Dawn on the back side of the house.
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The patio in winter.
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More of our gigantic plane trees outlined in snow.
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A snowy long view.
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The carriage house nursery building in winter.
Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year
to all my readers, customers, and garden blogging friends.
Carolyn
P.S. As I finished this post it began to snow!
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Carolyn’s Shade Gardens is a retail nursery located in Bryn Mawr, PA. The only plants that we mail order are snowdrops and miniature hostas. The nursery is closed until spring 2013. Thanks for a great year.
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CAROLYN'S SHADE GARDENS 
December 24, 2012 at 6:02 pm
Carolyn,
Thank you for this lovely present for my eyes!
Can’t wait for your posts in the New Year. Winter dreams
of gardens are the most enchanting kind of dreams.
Kathleen
PS: Please send some of your snow to Boston.
December 24, 2012 at 11:35 pm
Kathleen, you are right about winter dreams. I would add that winter blooming plants are the most captivating. Carolyn
December 24, 2012 at 6:05 pm
As I looked at the photos and started shivering, I was going to send a reply “ye of little faith…” Glad you also see the snow. Hopefully not as much as your beautiful pictures!
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Bonnie
December 24, 2012 at 11:37 pm
Bonnie, I guess we may have a whitish Christmas, but the light dusting looks like it could melt. I really enjoy snowy winters. Merry Christmas. Carolyn
December 24, 2012 at 7:04 pm
Very best to you and your family for the Holidays! From Chris and Philip.
December 24, 2012 at 11:38 pm
Chris, It is so nice to hear from you. I hope you and Philip enjoy the holidays. Give my best to the “other” Chris. Carolyn
December 24, 2012 at 7:08 pm
Such lovely snowy views of your property Carolyn. Clever post too since we are not going to have a white Christmas either. Later in the week, a foot of snow though. Hope you and your family have a wonderful holiday. I can’t wait for the warm Caribbean weather though.
December 24, 2012 at 11:39 pm
Donna, I enjoy snow but am looking forward to our trip to warmer climates! Carolyn
December 24, 2012 at 8:28 pm
Well, there’s a little snow here in Haverford, although not much! With any luck it will hang around until tomorrow…
Have the best of holidays! Anne
December 24, 2012 at 11:48 pm
Anne, Enjoy your day and whatever snow remains. Carolyn
December 24, 2012 at 11:24 pm
Ah yes, you spoke too soon. Lovely snow cover now. But your photos are exquisite!
December 24, 2012 at 11:45 pm
Linda, Not really cover, just a dusting but better than nothing. Merry Christmas. Carolyn
December 25, 2012 at 2:08 am
Wishing you could have that white Christmas but not really interested in sharing any of our snow! It is such a blessing over our unfrozen soil…. I just keep thinking about those martagon bulbs I planted late making roots! Take care and Merry Christmas Carolyn!
Larry
December 25, 2012 at 9:51 am
Larry, Now I would have put you down as a good sharer. Still I am happy your lilies are covered. Merry Christmas and thanks for a year of beautiful magnolias among other plants. Carolyn
December 25, 2012 at 8:31 am
Oh how lovely Carolyn…so glad you got a bit of the white…we have snow as well. Your garden is certainly gorgeous in all seasons and particularly in its coat of snow…Merry Christmas to you and yours and Happy New Year!
December 25, 2012 at 9:49 am
Donna, The white is gone this morning but it was very festive last night. Merry Christmas, Carolyn
December 26, 2012 at 1:56 pm
Seasons greetings Carolyn. Endless rain in the UK, if we did have snow it’s been washed away.
You can guess which photos are my favourites.
December 26, 2012 at 2:05 pm
Bag, I think you like the plane trees, and I always think of you when I put them in. Snowing like crazy here no but supposed to turn to 1 to 2″ of rain with flooding—-yuck! Happy Holidays, Carolyn
December 26, 2012 at 4:45 pm
Merry Christmas Carolyn! We’re a little low on snow here too, it just seems to keep missing us. Oh well, at least the driving isn’t as dangerous for families trying to get around. Have a wonderful holiday and best wishes in the new year.
December 26, 2012 at 5:51 pm
Marguerite, Merry Christmas and thanks for your support through out the year. Carolyn
December 26, 2012 at 11:40 pm
I hope you were able to enjoy a bit of snow after all before the rain. Merry Christmas!
December 27, 2012 at 8:48 am
Julie, the rain came almost immediately. We certainly aren’t having a drought around here! Carolyn
December 27, 2012 at 9:28 am
Snow does make Christmas magical… it is snowing and snowing and snowing here. Love it! Last year was a brown Christmas so we’re delighted to receive all this white.
December 27, 2012 at 11:10 am
Carolyn, Nice to hear from you. We had a whole brown winter last year so I hope we get some snow. Carolyn
December 27, 2012 at 12:15 pm
Happy holidays! I hope we both get some snow this winter to make up for last year. 🙂
December 28, 2012 at 11:08 am
CM, A lot of people around here do not like snow, but I am not one of them. We are supposed to have a storm tomorrow. Happy New Year. Carolyn
December 28, 2012 at 7:59 pm
I am late, but hope you had a good Christmas, and wish you a happy new year.
December 29, 2012 at 9:40 am
Thank you so much, Les, and the same to you. Carolyn
December 30, 2012 at 7:50 am
I’m guessing you will have a white New Year’s Day.
December 30, 2012 at 8:36 am
Mary, It snowed four inches yesterday. It was very beautiful especially at dusk. Happy New Year. Carolyn
December 30, 2012 at 11:44 am
Beautiful images! Wish you a happy new year!!
December 30, 2012 at 12:24 pm
Happy New Year to you too, Lula. Carolyn
December 31, 2012 at 2:34 pm
I love the snowy images– I hope the snow that began as you wrote became something pretty. Seeing your note about snowdrop orders made me feel like the gardening season is on its way! Cheers!
December 31, 2012 at 7:33 pm
Happy New Year, Linnie.