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Playing in My Mother’s Messy Garden
Under last year’s slimy leaves, stalwart crocus were trying to find the sun. Hidden by a thicket of some silvery-gray leaved shrub, a clump of daffodils caught enough light to try to bloom. The...
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Spring Flowers, Summer Weather, and No Stitches!
Does your family have a rule about the earliest date the air conditioning can get turned on? I am always determined not to do it until June, but usually May has some hot days and every year I break my...
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This Year, May is Mine
May is redbud trees and flowering crabapples and weeping cherries. May is planting petunias and lobelia and bee balm. And tomatoes and cucumbers and green beans. May is hummingbird feeders and...
View ArticleLosing a Tree
I’m so sad. After our polar vortex / snowpocalypse winter, I think our beautiful weeping cheery isn’t going to survive. This is what spring usually looks like: It’s solid pink and glorious for about...
View ArticleGarden Update: the Survivors and the Wimps
I wrote earlier about losing our weeping cherry tree to the polar vortex/snowpocalypse this year. It wasn’t blooming at all and had a whopping 12 or 13 tiny leaves. But Pamela Hodges, who blogs over...
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Spring, Glorious Spring!
It’s no secret that spring is my favorite time of year. After months of bitter cold or dreary skies, the colors bursting forth bring joy to my soul. Here’s what’s been happening in my garden: These...
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