snowdrops are up

This seems like fun now, but I remember 1993 here in Rochester when a similar weather pattern resulted in a nasty ice storm. I lost electricity and had to stay with my mother in law for almost a week. If it happens again, I'll choose death by hypothermia. :-)

On the other hand, I have fresh chives in January.

Ha, I too, was Zone 5.5 going on 6, but this is a Zone 8 winter. My winter garden, instead of being dormant and awaiting harvest, is actively growing. I pick substantial heads of radicchio, and the leaves are 90% good, unblemished by freezes. The carrots are huge. Bigger veggies, and they are a breeze to clean. Usually, come January one has to go through several layers of dead leaves to get to the radicchio heart. But, at least here in SE MI, the first all-day-below-freezing event will be tuesday.

"simy1" expounded:

I've got a rosemary plant out there doing just fine, spinach, beets, the parsley is starting to grow.....this can't last, though. Everything will get hammered with cold soon enough.