Our last winter was not as bad as the previous one, when I lost a lot of fall planted garlic with some varieties not making it at all. Many perennial flowers also died then. That is one reason for the grazy amount of cloves I now saved for spring planting.
Last winter everything seemed to go well, but spring time we got a lot of rain on top of the snow, which then froze as thick cover of ice. It killed my walking onions, which were already poking through the snow. Same thing happened to the friend who gave me the plant few years ago.
Gardening in the cold winter area is gamble with the weather and there will be losses, but we will keep trying. It takes a winter hardy gardener to not give up after few setbacks.
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