Finally, some blooms to share!

Though we did get 2 inches of snow yesterday morning. Really. It melted by late afternoon.

It’s been mostly in the 40s & 50s here lately, with lows in the 30s & 40s, but we’re expecting high temps in the 80s on Wednesday and Thursday this week, for the first time since last summer. Rollercoaster (of love).

Poor plants. Poor birds. Poor insects. No one knows what to expect.

Meanwhile, here’s what’s flowering and budding!

Bulbs: tulips, fritillaria uva vulpis, fritillaria meleagris, daffodils, muscari

Perennials: pasqueflower, brunnera, spring bush pea, hellebore

So-called Weeds: dandelion, coltsfoot, violets

Shrubs & Trees: lilacs, ‘Olga Mezitt’ rhododendron, dwarf Andromeda, quince, peach trees

‘Red Haven’ peach bloom

Come back in June for lots of flowers!

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Spring is like a perhaps hand

Spring is like a perhaps hand 
(which comes carefully 
out of Nowhere)arranging 
a window,into which people look(while 
people stare
arranging and changing placing 
carefully there a strange 
thing and a known thing here)and

changing everything carefully

spring is like a perhaps 
Hand in a window 
(carefully to 
and fro moving New and 
Old things,while 
people stare carefully 
moving a perhaps 
fraction of flower here placing 
an inch of air there)and

without breaking anything.

-- e e cummings

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More GBBD, hosted at May Dreams Gardens:
… danger garden – always fun for me to see interesting spikey things that don’t grow here
… Late to the Garden Party  (south coastal California, so MUCH in bloom!)
… Commonweeder in western Mass. is more my speed
… Veg Plotting in the UK focuses on a clematis
… Dirt Therapy in Vancouver, WA already has lupines, lilacs, salvia, oh my.
… Garden in a City (Chicago, to be exact) has lilacs, columbine, trillium, bleeding heart …