Some of the garden’s beauty
Almost there
Tag / spring
The energy this time of the year
It’s been unseasonably cold so far this spring. It’s not holding back the hardy folks. Love this hellebore. From Canada Blooms many years ago. It’s looking happy
Finally moved the bush cherries. The scraggy looking ones in front of the goji berries. Not much root to them and what they have are pretty gnarly. They even appeared to have been planted too deep.
This spring equinox
Incredible. Indescribable. At about 4:30 the head of the snake appears along the left side of the Temple. It wasn’t a total clear sky, still special to greet spring as people have for 1300 years.
Happy 2025
And good luck for the crazy year ahead.
First seed order has arrived from Richters. If it works out the veg bed will be a riot of annual colours. A brave attempt to be joyful given I need to take a year or two off of garlic , cucumbers, potatoes and maybe even tomatoes to hopefully eliminate some nasty creatures and mildew that has become problems.
And it snowed last night. A really pretty snow. I couldn’t shovel because of my shoulder. Boo hoo.
Only 68 days until spring!
Half day in the garden
Another gorgeous day. Sunny, 15c, and a forecast for rain tomorrow and damp for the rest of the week, so?
Moved ferns, bleeding hearts, sowed peas yesterday, dug up the rhubarb – the centre of the root was dead – turned the compost, took shrub cherry cuttings and feel great.
It’s spring?
One of the biggest snow falls this year.
Not called snowdrops for no reason
First day of spring and a dusting of snow on and off all day. Yay spring!
The Haskap got a hair cut
Did the big third, more likely fifth year, prune of the Honeyberry or Haskap today. Beautiful weather.
It’s started
First daffodil shoots have emerged. Tree peony has some gorgeous buds. Hellebores have a couple of buds which I should probably put some protection around. But yeah! Another garden season and my first one as a Master Gardener
Long shadows on Ground hog day
About 12:30 and sure looks like the angle of the sun has moved. Overall it’s been more of a grey Maritime winter. Today is the first sun in weeks it seems. No real snow to speak of so far, and little rain overall. Happy Groundhog Day. Fake spring starts in six weeks!
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