I woke up this morning and thought Martin was joking when he said "I hate to tell you this, the greenhouse is gone." We call it a greenhouse even though it's just a plastic hoop house.

My first response was "What?! You're kidding right?" I did think he was playing a joke on me. We've worked so hard to put it up and plant the over 500 cream and rose ranunculus, and albino anemones. They can stand a slight frost but not a full snow and freeze.

It was snowing and the wind was howling outside. I quickly said "what are you still doing sitting here?" I was still half asleep. Our guest who was up having tea with Martin just minutes before I woke up also offered to come help. I threw on boots and a coat over my pajamas. Martin thinks I'm nuts. I am just dead serious about getting it right. We all hurried outside in the blowing snow to cover the hopeful flowers.

I just couldn't let it be. I wanted to know that we tried all that we could to see them bloom. We agreed to just put the plastic over the ground to cover the flowers and order new plastic to put up. The plastic had been blown down and it had holes in it from the wind so we needed to start over.

We hope that just covering them will keep them from freezing just until we can put up another layer of plastic...at the end of the week. We are hopeful this will last until Spring and offer us the gorgeous blooms we're hoping for.