Couldn’t help myself. Ordered the first plants of 2013! From Hardy Fruit Trees in Quebec and a few others: Raspberry Garry (package of 5) American Winterberry (2 to 4 feet) Pommier Trust (1 à 2 pieds). Really only wanted the Winterberry :

They flower on new wood, so prune in spring!

Hazelnut scale is my guess. I’ve had every other kind of scale so why not hazelnut. OMAFRA has lots of great info on their site.

A real spring day on Saturday. After a week of being cooped up in Dallas this week the chance to get out and play in the mud was amazing. Of course there was the chore of being able to get back into the shed after all the holiday empties were sorted.

The best surprise was to see the hyacinth tips a spring green.

Just love this fungus/mushroom growing on the willow stump.

Countdown to spring in 60 days.