Observations on plants and gardening from the Great Basin steppe in the American West.
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We have an actual hoarfrost! Of course, this happens the year I cut everything back.
Our winters are so dry that we never see anything like this, but we have a freezing fog today, and everything is sugar-coated. Long-needled conifers bear the frosts the most elegantly, crystallized from skirt to spire.
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