Native Fairy Candles Emerging
Native fairy candles emerging, with fritillary persica beyond, and a bit of blue scilla in the foreground.
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Native fairy candles emerging, with fritillary persica beyond, and a bit of blue scilla in the foreground.
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It is super-satisfying pruning a raspberry bush and giving away bundles of canes to my neighbors. I ended up with 8 bundles, 6 of which were claimed (over on the local garden FB group) so far. Within minutes of my posting!
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A landscaper once tried to talk me out of planting a forsythia shrub because he said it was ‘weedy’. I don’t know what he meant by that, but I think he meant that it grows in a kind of chaotic way, and can be a little higgledy-piggledy in the garden. I’m okay with a little
I have to admit, one of the things I love about hyacinths is that they flop over after a bit — it’s as if they’re shouting at you, “Pick me, pick me!” And then you cut them and bring them into the house and put them in vases and it smells like spring.
Need to straighten up the cutting garden a bit, but the flowers are coming anyway, whether I’m ready or not. Daffodils, species tulips.
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Native fairy candles, just starting to emerge. So feathery. With scilla behind.
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In case it seems like I’m perfectly fine, which you might think from all the garden / cooking / sewing / cat photos, let me note, for the record, that I’m walking around on the verge of tears for hours every day. There’s a huge knot of tension in my upper back that Kevin periodically
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