The photo for April on our calendar this year -- we produce a calendar every year from our garden photos taken the previous year -- shows the weeping cherry tree behind the house in full bloom, wearing its delicate, but fulsome white wig (top photo). It's a fashion the tree can maintain for about a week, maybe a few days more if the weather stays cool; but still one of the annual highlights of spring.
With six
days left in April this year, we have started to see the white dots on the cherry tree
that show the blossoms are on their way.Will it still be April when it blooms?
This week
we got a fairly good return on the daffodil bulbs (bottom photo down) Sonya and I planted last fall (we may have lost a few to the squirrels). Some of the bright, showy hyacinths
we planted in the front yard struggled to get out of the overhanging lea of the
boxwood hedge, which suffered a downward spread from piling the shoveled snow
on top of them last winter (second and third photos). We're going to need a new winter
measurement: condensed snow weight per square foot.
And some of
our vinca, the most successful (or greediest) of our spring flowering
groundcovers are putting out their blue five-petaled flowers in various
place both in front and behind the house. (fifth photo)
What I
can't get a handle on yet this year because spring is so late is which plants
are not coming back at all this year. And which colonies have died back from their
previous spread. Perhaps others will rush in to claim the available space.
By May 2 of
last year (a date that will come around on Saturday, this year), my photos show
a pretty strong spring bloom. The Japanese primrose, for instance, a low, small
plant with a very striking flower already peaking: pink and violet petals around
yellow centers. (fourth photo)
I'm already working on a state of anticipation that I might as well call 'I remember May.'
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