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spring!
[pops head up] Is it safe to post again? Good.
We had a 60 degree day outside today! So I went out and got my fingernails (and the knees of my jeans) nice and dirty. Pulled a winter's worth of weeds, mostly, and transplanted a bunch of ajuga (http://www.robsplants.com/images/portrait/AjugaReptans050501.jpg) to a shady place that needs ground cover desperately -- ajuga will do that job without even breathing hard. The soil was bloody cold because it got down close to freezing last night, but hey, you can't have everything.
I have daffodils, among other things, but not the clump in the icon, the picture of which was taken last year. That particular clump vanished. Utterly. There's not even any foliage. Given than a) that was a brand-new clump of daffodils last year, and b) that daffodil bulbs are poisonous, so it's not likely anything ate them, I must say it's a mystery as to what happened to them. Daffodils are usually fairly indestructible, esp. in this climate where there are fields of the things, grown for the cut flower trade, less than five miles from my house [sigh].
I also have hellebores, glory of the snow, and grape hyacinths to go with the usual ubiquitous pansies. Not that I'm complaining about the ubiquitous pansies. Hey, it's the middle of March and they've been blooming off and on almost all winter whenever the rain let up long enough for a bloom to open before being melted. Oh, and of course I still have hardy cyclamen, and have had hardy cyclamen for at least a month now. Snowdrops and crocus and reticulata irises are a pleasant memory now.
What I am complaining about is the fact that the temperatures are supposed to drop back to the upper forties tomorrow and stay there for the forseeable future. Along with more rain, of course. It was a lovely day, but I'm tired of being tantalized, thank you. I want spring to come and stay now...
We had a 60 degree day outside today! So I went out and got my fingernails (and the knees of my jeans) nice and dirty. Pulled a winter's worth of weeds, mostly, and transplanted a bunch of ajuga (http://www.robsplants.com/images/portrait/AjugaReptans050501.jpg) to a shady place that needs ground cover desperately -- ajuga will do that job without even breathing hard. The soil was bloody cold because it got down close to freezing last night, but hey, you can't have everything.
I have daffodils, among other things, but not the clump in the icon, the picture of which was taken last year. That particular clump vanished. Utterly. There's not even any foliage. Given than a) that was a brand-new clump of daffodils last year, and b) that daffodil bulbs are poisonous, so it's not likely anything ate them, I must say it's a mystery as to what happened to them. Daffodils are usually fairly indestructible, esp. in this climate where there are fields of the things, grown for the cut flower trade, less than five miles from my house [sigh].
I also have hellebores, glory of the snow, and grape hyacinths to go with the usual ubiquitous pansies. Not that I'm complaining about the ubiquitous pansies. Hey, it's the middle of March and they've been blooming off and on almost all winter whenever the rain let up long enough for a bloom to open before being melted. Oh, and of course I still have hardy cyclamen, and have had hardy cyclamen for at least a month now. Snowdrops and crocus and reticulata irises are a pleasant memory now.
What I am complaining about is the fact that the temperatures are supposed to drop back to the upper forties tomorrow and stay there for the forseeable future. Along with more rain, of course. It was a lovely day, but I'm tired of being tantalized, thank you. I want spring to come and stay now...