Bulbs love my parents’ yard. Even tulips. They come back and bloom every year. I’ve been planting or giving them bulbs to plant for nearly ten years now.
Daffodil ‘Accent’ (I think?)
Daffodil ‘Tahiti’ – One of the very best double daffs I’ve encountered
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The garden on March 18th.
The garden on March 21st! Tilled. Trellis put up. Raspberries planted. Peas planted. Broccoli planted. So it still doesn’t look like much. The picture would look better with my daughter in it.
And I finally have a bloom. One lonely daffodil.
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With the exception of silver maple blossoms, I could find no blooms to post for Bloom Day. I’m sure there are crocus blooming somewhere in town but we never crossed paths. (Am now imagining crocus sprouting legs and walking, quite frightening.) Also, silver maple flowers don’t look like much unless you have a really good camera. (I don’t.) So here you are, grocery store blooms. Lovely. Potted. Daffs.
The heat index today was only ONLY 108. Isn’t that fabulous? All weekend I’d been wondering about the wisdom of trying to maintain gardens in three different places (and taking care of my daughter and doggies and working full time), I think I might be insane for trying. I’ve been coming home and taking naps during my lunch hour instead of actually eating just to get through the day. And now the heat index is 108! That just makes everything, well, hotter. And humider too, which probably isn’t a real word, oh well. Tomorrow night while little girl is at her gymnastics class I will WILL go to the community garden and WEED. This whole once a week thing just is not working. Tonight I will just have to find solace in this:
