A few new leaves have unfurled on the lilac bushes and the cottonwood buds are just about to pop. We are enjoying the daffodils which have started to bloom in profusion! The nice, warmer days with sun have inspired them and now it's turned cooler again with a little rain, a lot of wind, a quick a thunderstorm and a brief snow squall. Spring weather is indeed strange!
I've started covering a strip along one edge of the large perennial bed with heavy landscape cloth. It's not the quick job I imagined. What is? Everything I start to do takes longer. Double? Triple? More? My ability and agility are not what they used to be. The weather has me stopped for now.
Three groups of the Johann Strauss tulips have started blooming. Today they remained closed up because the weather was cold, showery and even snowy at one point. The blooms are small and the stems are short (all in good proportion), and I decided they look like little creamy white candles with red streaks, so even when not open they are cute and colorful. I think I bought them at a nursery or big box store, however I see on the card that came with the package that Van Zyverden must also carry them. Buy some, believe me, you'll like them! Taller stems with larger blooms sometimes take a beating with our strong winds.
Spring will return, I just know it!
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