I don't keep consistently good garden records, but one detail I have tracked faithfully since I planted my first flower, is the date of the first bloom around here. For you Southerners who have things blooming throughout the winter, I'm talking about the first visible bloom, when the snow has melted enough for me to [...]
Snowdrops
Snowdrops
March 22, 2003 – Posted in: Plant info, Snowdrops, What's up/bloomingThe snowdrops in the Secret Garden are all blooming now, the same ones I tried to will out of the ground earlier. These are my most rapidly increasing snowdrops. I got them from a friend who found them growing in a field near her house. Presumably there was once a house and garden where she [...]
My First Garden Patrol of the Year
March 17, 2003 – Posted in: Garden chores, What's up/bloomingThis is our third day of mild weather (in the 60s today!) but my first opportunity to get out and take a look. There are snowdrops well up in the Secret Garden with snow all around them. I wonder if the rest of the snowdrops there are up, too, and just hidden from sight? Maybe [...]
March is here
March 1, 2003 – Posted in: Weather"In like a lion, out like a lamb" was what I was taught in grade school, and back then, when I lived on Long Island and then in the Maryland suburbs, it made sense. Around here, March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lion, and, if you're lucky, you get a [...]
Snow
February 17, 2003 – Posted in: Plant info, Snowdrops, WeatherIt started last night, and the weather service is predicting 12 to 20 inches of accumulation. My cousin in Maryland got 26 inches. This has been the kind of winter to severely aggravate cabin fever. Snow so deep the kids can't play outside, and temps so cold they would be back inside so soon it [...]
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