The forecast for Seattle is for a chilly, potentially snowy Christmas, with subsequently colder and colder days with lows the rest of the week of 36, 28, 21, 15, 18, 18, and 24 degrees before it gets back above freezing.

The tender plants were already in the greenhouse, but there are some less tender but more precious plants that needed to get some protection. This included 13 pots of dahlias that had been on the driveway and all of the Tonsai starts, which are between four and ten years old and too important to lose.

Here are the dahlia pots, all lined up–a baker’s dozen of them!

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I cut all the stems off and am just hoping not too many slugs made it into the greenhouse because slugs love to eat the tubers.

There were six or seven trays of young trees in small pots that I moved into the greenhouse after the dahlias we stacked inside, and that completely filled it–very little room for anything else.

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I started to order some native and ornamental plant seeds from Chilterns but they no longer ship to the US, apparently. I’ll order from somewhere else over the holiday break.