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Last week I complained about the lack of snow, so this week we did get a tiny dusting, which tried (valiantly) and failed to make last year’s garden scruff look elegant and white-edged.  Once it disappeared the garden was back to looking brown from a distance, but showing creeping green and more and more tulip shoots in the close-ups.

(Update:  Well, Sunday night it really did snow (see inset), much more effectively (~4 inches?) and prettily than the Friday-night attempt – though fair odds it will be all gone by next weekend when I take my next garden pictures.)

Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years, suggests that the spring has been cool enough so far to put us about a week behind previous years.  My corner crocuses are still just barely showing their buds, and the tulips are still just shoots, as opposed to the wild blooms pictured below.

Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years shows a study in ready-to-emerge white hellebore buds, which I haven’t got hints of yet this year.  But I’ll take my lovely revel in early spring emergence in pictures if I have to, and try to remember to be patient.  The spring and the green will always come.

…This week my garden is busy growing, even if it’s still mostly beneath the ground.