See Previous | See Next I’m a bit under the weather this week. But my garden is all rain, rain, rain, Green! Green! Green! It’s like it’s working to wrap us all up in the idea of (slightly soggy) summertime. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years suggests roses and peonies to come. Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years would also like to suggest clematis and penstemmon. …This week things are really bushy. (And there are no irises.)
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…
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…
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…
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….
See Previous | See Next My garden is starting to be painted with spring colors this week! I’ve got tulips starting in front. The wild plum bushes are just starting to bloom. And my pretty, pretty pasque flower is showing its soft, feathery face. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years promises more blooming branches to come and yet more color from the tulips. Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years, (despite a sad data-gap) promises pretty lilacs soon too….
See Previous | See Next Well, we got more snow this week so that I woke up and looked outside and everything looked like it had been frosted with powdered sugar. It was cool enough and enough snow to hang around for a day or so and provide some proper moisture, so everything was beautiful, beautiful white and green. The winter brown has finally been chased away, and the tulips are really gearing themselves up to go. Looking back 1-2…
See Previous | See Next Yay. We had some blessed rain and snow this week, and that really made things perk up lovely. For a little bit on Saturday, the grass had snow shadows in the shapes of the trees, and sprinkled snow lay on the plum branches like white blossoms. And the daffodils are here! random yellow dots here and there and everywhere! I love bulb flowers. I also love my pretty, pretty hellebores, and so I couldn’t resist…
See Previous | See Next All the green shoots coming up in my garden! Iris leaves and tulip shoots and daffodils! My red lentin roses are always so nice and healthy, but a lot more of my garden is still so dry that the other hellebores are struggling. But, that’s not stopping everything else, and this year SO many tulips (maybe) – if I can just get them water. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years say that buds on…
See Previous | See Next I’ve got flowers! The crocuses and the crazy red alien tulips actually decided to show up at the same time. (These were surprise tulips planted by the previous owners. As you can see, they bloom very early, but also, in the bright sun, they open almost flat, quite unlike tulips as I previously understood them.) Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years is quite the advertisement for the consistency of these tulips. Otherwise, it suggests…