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I just love gardening in the Spring

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I think I love just about everything about Spring … well ok, maybe not the garbage that seems to blow on my lawn and gets tangled in my roses or the sometimes endless days of rain … but otherwise, Spring just might be my favorite season.

I love watching the grass turn from dry straw like patches to tender green; seeing the first stem and leaves come up out of the soil from a seed I planted only weeks before; and seeing the first few flowers of spring bloom in my garden.

Speaking of Spring flowers … my Danfordia irises – tiny little things, came up in the second week of April, but unfortunately they only lasted about a week. I wish these lovely delicate flowers would last a month instead of just days!

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They’re so pretty!

It’s cool outside today, but yesterday … oh it was one of the best and worst days of Spring! Temps were almost 90 F with the humidity, but then at about 5:30 pm it got really dark and winds suddenly came up out of nowhere. I was outside pruning some roses and our neighbor behind us started to lose part of his eves trough, and the one next to us lost part of his lattice fence …

All the while I was gathering up my gardening tools and trying to get inside the house while things were flying around ie fence, eves trough and small branches from our other neighbors huge maple! My husband was just coming back from a store when he got caught in the wind storm. A tree fell right in front of the car as he was driving! Power lines came down with it too! Surprisingly this didn’t really make the news … but as far as I’m concerned we were both out in a bad wind storm or mini-tornado! That’s what it seemed like anyway! After that the rain started and we had a small thunderstorm – what an end to a beautiful day!

At least my flowers didn’t seem to get damaged in the storm. The hyacinth had just opened up the other day and I took photos of them before the storm … oh that sweet smelling hyacinth perfume … wafting through the garden. I love it!

I also have some tulips that are just starting to bloom today, daffodils that will bloom in a couple of days and several other plants leafing out or developing buds. The garden is going to be lovely this year!

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How is your garden this spring? Are your plants coming up earlier than normal – as they are here in Toronto?

BTW sorry for the lack of Green Thumb Sunday posts in the last two weeks. I’ve been sick lately (bad reaction to a new med), and also discouraged by the lack of participation from members. If you are making GTS posts please remember to check in on this site so we will all know that you’ve made a new Green Thumb post.






The crocus are finally up!

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You know that Spring has truly arrived once you see Snowdrops and Crocus’ coming up in peoples gardens!

My crocus’ have made their first appearance today. Two tiny little flowers in the sunniest patch of my backyard lawn.

Yellow Crocus again

Actually there might be crocus all over the place. We have a lot of leaves from the neighbors maple tree in our gardening beds (just a light dusting of ones that fell in the fall that we didn’t clean up) and at the edges of the raised garden beds. It’s at the edges of the lawn near the stones of the raised garden beds that I planted the crocus bulbs, so there might very well be several plants under those leaves.

I think I might go out into the garden this afternoon and rake up the leaves, rake the lawn and perhaps clear out some of the dead foliage in the garden beds. The weather forecast for the next weeks says that it will be above freezing during the day and zero at night most nights for the next week with only one night well below zero … so I think it’s finally safe to get out there and do a little garden work.

I won’t prune the roses yet. It’s still far too early to do that. However, I suspect with this warmer than average March we’ve had the roses and other shrubs and trees in the area will come out of dormancy at least a week if not two weeks earlier than they normally do … well if the weather holds, that is. I mean, I can already see some leaf buds on many of my roses.

How is your garden doing this Spring? Have you noticed that a few of your plants are blooming or coming out of dormancy a little earlier than normal?

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