We have a massive winter wind storm coming in, they are saying it could be like the winter wind storms of Christmas 2022, that storm took down a huge number of trees, power outages and drifting snow upwards of 10 to 15 feet depending on where you were located.

Our area looks to be in the middle, with wind to be between 50 to 80 km a hour, where as the worst areas are looking at up to 100 km a hour along with the snow that will happening at the same time.

Today the wind is coming in on our standard winter directions, which is a very good thing for us, it means our both our big spruce tree hedgerow (further from the house) and the closer shorter/dense bush hedgerow will do their jobs in terms of both lifting the wind up and over and helping cut it and hold the snow drifting in.

The shorter thick hedge row has a built in swale in front of it to help catch and hold the snow on that side of the hedgerow away from the house, this means that we will get min drifting in the frontage area between that hedgerow and the kitchen garden to the walkway and the front of the house.

You can see some of what is happening from the photo from my winter wind direction side of the front yard, behind the spruce lines, is in fact a second short line of a combo of native spruce/maple/lilac. Here is that view from a spring/summer photo.

Don’t let the back end view from the higher up photo from the living room fool you on just how much coverage that second shorter/thicker closer hedge row is! This is a direct summer look from the ground level, and you can just see the photo i took the photo out of in the warmth of my house.

The willows help cut the wind some but not at all like the hedgerows do..

This one shows the smaller rose /fruit tree row one of the inbetween the spruce and the house hedgerow..

Did you buy a house that had windrow plantings down to help cut down storm winds/winter winds or drifting? Or did you like me, need to plant them yourself? The winter wind drift side is now triple rowed out and the winter solar sun is kept fully open and allowed to pour in.

If local, stay safe and safe warm, have a good one folks and if you do not already have hedgerows to help protect your home, outbuildings or barns, do consider them, they are worth the work!