Evergreen Week

Week 2008/47 is that time in the second half of November when winter often arrives in Hamburg with frosts and the first falls of snow. Not always: in some years, mild weather continues into December and an abortive mini-spring happens in vegetation until harder frosts freeze off the buds. Early Monday this week we had a mild early morning frost and snow is forecast for the end of the week. This is the moment when the evergreens come into their own: lively holdouts against the cold. The grass is still mostly green, but looking a little peaky.