Wow!  February 29!  Spring is around the corner, right?  I hope so.

We filled February with a lot of activities, and the month was fun, but I’m so ready for gardening season.

My daylily seeds are in the refrigerator getting prepped for planting in two weeks.  The days are getting longer, but the snow piles remain.  Still, my shamrocks are back in bloom, and, right on cue, my hibiscus bloomed for the first time this year on February 26th.  How does it do that so consistently?  Soon another bloom will brighten a couple days.

Outside at our townhome, the sedum I left for the birds fed another as well. Can you tell who else liked it?

Glad to see it go to good use!

Up north we have ample snow as well – ample as in higher than the bottom of the doors the last time we made a day trip.  But soon the wonder of the thawing woods will arrive.  We’ll see how our fall planted bulbs fare, and if the asclepias and coneflowers made it through the weedy hugelkultur garden and the long winter.  Dare we plant daylily seedlings?  Still undecided.