Are we heading backwards? Well, only for a couple days. I was not at all interested in taking full snow covered grass and tree pictures from Sunday’s storm. Rather, celebrating how today’s return to a more normal April day vanquished the white stuff once again.
It is tulip planting time. “What?”, you say. “Perhaps fall would be better?” you say. Yes, but these are bulbs from a watch’em grow vase our grandson, by way of Mom and Dad, gave me. They started to bloom before we went on our first ever planned “down south” vacation, and waited to wrap up blooming until a few days after we got back. Amazing! Maybe it was because we needed some cheering up during our covid bout.
Where should they be planted? Maybe up north. Maybe in the front of the townhouse. Or maybe at a new volunteer location, if approved of course. I will keep you posted 😁
Last Saturday was a springboard to glorious garden time days. I could not resist being out in the front gardens. Sunday morning the gardens out back also got some love.
The snow melted very fast and is now gone – even the giant snow plow pile. A very odd feeling after such a LONG SNOWY winter, but it is time! We may have another snow or two, but just like early fall, they melt pretty fast.
The perennial survival rates are good so far.
All of the sedum made it through the winter, and have new leaf buds forming. The non-productive tulips out front are also up, as well as one daylily.
Out back, the Purple D’Oro and Just Plum Happy daylilies are poking up, the two areas with productive tulips, crocus, and on one side hyacinth are up, and … the Blue Mouse Ears are starting to poke up!
Under the Linden, the Marque Moon daylilies are coming up.
No asian lilies, and no big hostas yet, but that is super normal.
With the Amur Maple situation out front, whether or not they replace the tree, our shade will be compromised, so I am very glad I did not put any Blue Mouse Ears divisions in front where there used to be shade.
Look super closely. A few days ago these were the Purple D’Oro daylilies. Just a tiny sprig of green.
Here they are a few days later.
Two days ago the South Seas daylily popped up.
And the Marque Moon daylilies are starting to come up.
Things will start filling in and covering the rock quickly now.
And the winner of the first bloom in the 2023 gardens is
the crocus!!!
Hopefully sir bunimous does not munch on them.
Happy Easter to you and yours! If you celebrate 🙂
The winner of the first “green” spotted in the gardens at the townhouse is …
a sedum!
More to come.
70s ahead.
The amur maple and broken off limb are still sitting in the front yard 😂 The birds and squirrels have been seen sitting around the broken off branch – easy seed eatings, right?
A volunteer opportunity came along today, for the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. (Angels sing)
Sooooooo tempted!!! It is even one of those opportunities where I can use my 16 hours of paid volunteer time through work! (That’s how I heard about it 🙂 ) The date listed right now is smack dab in the middle of a busy work week next week though. Still sooooo tempted. To be even a tiny part of that glorious place and love on the plants and be around others who love it and share and learn from and with them? (angels sing again!) Please believe me when I say I love and have loved that place since the kids were very young and we lived 10 minutes away and took them there to exhaust them – lol. Work events there, church events there, anniversaries there. And oh how it has grown! Contemplating. Seriously contemplating. Last time we were there I was actually jealous of the people weeding and working with the plants! It is just quite a drive now to get there. But still contemplating.
Did I say I am SERIOUSLY contemplating? Maybe a Saturday thing.
It happens so many years! The robins arrive in huge numbers, and then we get a huge snow storm. They are so hardy! Today I watched so many, in groups, in the wet areas of the green space, just splashing and being robins.
We had a big snow storm come through last night with very heavy snow. I was up late and actually heard the branch on the bottom go. Thinking it is a 50/50 chance the other damage snaps back. We shall see.
Heyeeee! Maybe SOMEONE could have a little MERCY! Freezing my back end off here!!!
Oh there you are! Well hello there! So good to see you again!
Susan's Daily Garden 