Spring 2015

Cool and wet weather makes for slow work in the yard, but finally the cool-weather seeds are in: Lettuce, green onions, beets, Brussels sprouts, kale, radishes, and peas.

Easter Sunday was sunny, but not overly warm, so a perfect day for planting. Now, just the following Saturday, some seeds are already sprouting.

Meanwhile, spring flowers and buds are out all over the place. Crocuses and snowdrops--the first flowers of spring--are already spent. But they were lovely, and so welcome after the winter gloom. Here are some:

The pussy willow has gone from kitten-soft puffs to wild fluffy ones.

With a robin watching over it all...

Daffodils, hyacinths, tulips, forsythia, and grape hyacinths have replaced the crocuses.

And waiting on deck, oak leaf hydrangeas, sedum, peonies, and pink flowering almond.