What's in bloom in your yard?

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It's starting to look (and feel) a lot like spring here! I actually was home this weekend and spent time cleaning the barn, weeding, cleaning a bit in the bunkhouse (my *house*, oth, is a mess!), and enjoying some good weather.

Lungworts and primroses are definitely blooming away, as well as the hellebores. I got 2 black trilliums last year from a dear old friend at church, and they made it and are starting to unfurl. The crocosimas are greening up. Lilac buds are very swollen and ready to burst. The lillies are up, as are the poppies. Lawn mowers were heard in the vicinity this weekend too. No barbecues that I could smell yet (thank goodness...I'm always raving hungry b/c I'm still eating more or less soft foods b/c of the braces...lost 10 pounds since mid-January).

Anyway, anything blooming in your world?

-- Anonymous, February 28, 2005

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What's in bloom in my yard? Well let's see.............

This weekend the dwarf iceberries were sparkling in the sun, and snowmallow is stunning this morning! I stopped to smell the slushroses on my way to the garage, and caught a glimpse of a cardinal perched on a freezelily. Yesterday my little dog daintily fertilized our patch of creeping glacierplant, then surprised us all by rolling in the sleetgrass. So cute!

The hybrid hailflowers are going crazy, and the mudbush is fairly filling the air with its unique perfume. I could vaguely make out a few sprouts of dogturd bulbs emerging this afternoon, but even that thrill was eclipsed by the sheer joy of just standing out in the garden, arms outstretched to the clouds, thanking the heavens for the beauty of an uncomplicated two-color world! Namaste!

-- Anonymous, February 28, 2005


Darn - EM beat me to it! Altho, I don't think that I have the imagination to come up with all of her "flowers"!

I can still see the daffodil leaves above the snow. The snow started at about 0430 this morning; and has continued fitfully all day. Snows like heck for a half hour or so, then a flake now and again, then more "real" snow, etc...

And I was gonna plant onions today.

Bummer.

So I deep cleaned my living room instead.

Bummer.

-- Anonymous, February 28, 2005


Oh Em, that was so funny. I was grumbling under my breath reading sheepish's blooms, realizing it is snowing, HARD outside right now. They are predicting up to a foot for us. Thank goodness we are all off tomorrow (that is if school is closed, which we are expecting it to be.) dogturd buds, snicker...

-- Anonymous, February 28, 2005

Yeah, after hearing about the storms back east, I thought my timing on my posting was horrible. Sorry! It's just that all the cherry trees are blooming. The frogs are loud at night. We even saw a mosquito (the first mosquito of spring?) on Sunday at out neighbors. Forget the robins...they've been here for weeks.

EM, you are way entirely too hilarious!!!!! I was laughing so hard..

The flip side of this weather of course, must be global warming...so it's not all pleasant in the forecast, especially looong-range.

-- Anonymous, March 01, 2005


The flowering quince is blooming!

-- Anonymous, March 03, 2005


Our apple and redbud trees have buds that are ready to "pop" any time now. No blooms or blossoms yet, but the wild daylilies and my daffodils are up about 2 or 3 inches. In spite of the snowfall we got last Tuesday (7" on top of the 7 or so we still have on the ground), the plants keep on trying!! The daylilies and daffs are on the south side of the house close to the foundation and the sun is so warm that, no matter what we get for snowfall, it melts within a day or so. And....my horse and goats are shedding!!!! A most definite sign that no matter what old man winter throws at us, spring is right around the corner :-)!

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2005

Hey, I saw a robin. Unfortunately, it was dead in the middle of the road...

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2005

LOL, Dee!

Glad to see I gave you guys a giggle! It's now warm and silly here, supposed to be 51 today. Snow is almost gone again. Maybe I'll go out today and look more closely at the ground, now that I can see it.

-- Anonymous, March 06, 2005


It wasnt 51 yesterday; it was 60! Weird! Today the high is 25. We are hardy here. I found a few (what I think are) iris sprouts. glad I don't have any fruit trees to worry about with this bipolar weather.

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2005

Supposed to be 63 here today. That's warm for us this time of year.

First Ag reports for E. WA farmers are warning of possible drought conditions coming up this year. I'm thinking with the price of gasoline (i.e., transportation) plus lack of irrigation, hay prices should really spike. I'm considering getting hay now...in case my pastures go dry this summer. If they don't, I've got a head start on next winter. I'm not sure I've got any way to finance a hay purchase right now tho! We're getting into the house project quite a bit $$$.

Many weeds made it through the winter.....drat.

-- Anonymous, March 08, 2005



Sunday was a beautiful day - 65* when I woke up in the early afternoon and drug Pop out of the house for a while. Hubs found us out looking for things coming up in the yard and joined us as we piddled in the garden a bit - Pop hoed some weeds, I started a new lasagne bed slash compost pile and fed Bun the dandelions that Pop hoed out, Hubs did the lifting and toting of bags of shredded leaves etc.. for me and tore down old bean vines. We planted a 3x3 square bed in the garden - put an X of onions across it and in the four little triangular beds thus made sowed beets, chard, lettuce and radishes. Probably won't grow, but I needed dirt therapy.

Early last spring, I had (under threat of Roundup from Hubs) dug up an old flower bed that my Mama had planted that had become overrun with poison ivy. I planted some of the double daylillies by the canopy posts on the shed, but had so many that I ended up potting up a bunch. Pop and I had planted them out on the east and west ends of the clothesline surround (a 12x32 area outlined with timbers and filled in with woodchips) last fall. Well, they are starting to come up, as are the ones out by the shed. I've got a couple of bright yellow crocus blooming in the front bed, and tulips, daffs and grape hyacinths coming up in the front and side beds and also out under the peach trees in the garden. Buds are swelling on the peach trees, but not on the cherry or apple trees yet; grape vines don't look to be doing anything either - which is good, as they still need pruned!

I noticed that the wild, or rather - naturalized - daylillies down at the end of the road that Mama and the elderly neighbor lady and I transplanted there many years ago are starting to come up too. I'd like to bring some up to the yard; just not real sure where I'd put them!

-- Anonymous, March 08, 2005


That reminds me that I need to divide my lillies! Thanks for reminding me. The lilac leaves are opening. That's the sign to plant peas...when the lilac leaves get to be the size of mouse ears...don't remember where I read that.

Our 50 chickens are doing a pretty good job of wiping out everything in one vegetable garden (including my strawberries unfortunately). However, since I'm not planting in there this year, they will do a fine job of fertilizing and keeping most of the weeds out. Eggs anyone?

-- Anonymous, March 09, 2005


Guess what...got more snow coming here sometime after midnite tonight. Supposed to be about 7 to 12 inches all totalled!! BUT...by Tuesday of next week temps will be in the 40's and 50's!! I STILL say that I WILL be planting peas, lettuce, carrots and radishes by the 3rd. week of April :-)!!!!!! I did start my tomato, eggplant and pepper seedlings last weekend.

Dee...we saw robins today and they weren't dead!!

-- Anonymous, March 11, 2005


I saw two live ones today. Still snow on the ground but some bare patches. Of course, the patches are mud but still ground.

-- Anonymous, March 15, 2005

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