Day Moon-Crow Moon

See Previous | See Next This week my garden is leaning heavily into the woodland look, which means: See more pretty green-and-green in my lovely spurge, which is so obligingly vibrant and bright from shady bits of my front garden. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years gives some very insistent hints that my bright-orange rose, Austrian Copper, should be blooming soon, so there’s more than green to look forward to. Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years shows more…

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See Previous | See Next This week my garden is pretty.  Not a very exciting statement, but it’s at the point of the season where I like to just wander around in it and look at the pretty (including my pigsqeak looking all happy pink and bright!).  So, I think it’s really nice. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years suggests my earliest roses – Austen Copper 🙂 – might be showing up soon.  Though, it should be noted the…

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See Previous | See Next This week is the season of petals all over the car!  So much rain (yay!) and the lilacs and flowering chokecherry are looking lush and lovely.  And my earliest irises are blooming.  So pretty and sweet! Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years definitely supports this as the season of lilacs.  (Though I’m sad more of my early irises don’t seem interested in flowering this year, as were hinted at from last year.) Looking back…

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See Previous | See Next It’s tulips-and-apple-blossoms season and my garden is glowing!  It’s always so gratifying when the Just-plants-lots-of-tulips-and-keeps-planting-tulips strategy pays off, as it definitely has this year.  Last year was nope for tulips, but this year they’re back.  Yay! Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years is a good reminder that spring color really does show up pretty suddenly, but will hopefully keep going for a few more weeks, with other flowers too, before we hit a lull….

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