This is going to be a late starting season for me this year. Like the SW we are very arid but the HUGELY snowfull conditions this winter should make my garden burst this year. Things are finally breaking ground on the north side of my garden. First, as always, are the snowdrops. This is galanthus woronowii

Sweet !!

Thanks quietyard. Um er I'm trying to be demure about it, but as some of my dear SW buddies know I'M SO EXCITED I CAN'T STAND IT o did I say that out loud

I can imagine how excited you are. We can garden all year here . My friend Margaret in British Columbia sure has a long winter. Still seeing snow ! She is anxious to be out in the garden with her daylilies !

Linda

I feel your anticipation of blooming joys! I've never seen a snowdrop! Must be a real kick to see one announcing more blooms on the way! Do you have peony? I love peony!

That snowy stuff would take a little getting used to.

I think I can feel your snowy pain, too..... it's freezing here in the high desert!

More pics of the Great Thaw in Calgary????

How luvly to meet you quietyard. Is your friend mcash70? We wave at each other over the big rocks whenever we see each other Me and my true luv hope to snowbird in AZ when we retire which is why I am always pesterling everyone on this forum Methinks the Phoenix peoples are hoping we'll snowbird in Tucson, and the Tucson peoples are hoping we'll snowbird in Phoenix

Do-si-do with Aguane (twirl, twirl) I do too have peonies and I will post pics when they bloom.

You are right it is Mcash 70 ! We e-mail each other every day and she has shared her daylily seeds with me. I now have many gal. pots of her plants growing here. She is growing some of my hollyhock and morning glories and amaryllis.

Tucson is cooler then Phoenix and has beautiful mountains and not as much traffic.

Linda

Me and my true luv have meandered about through NM and AZ. He likes Phoenix; I like Tucson. go figure Really, truly it's just that I'm enchanted with the Patagonia area for bird watching which is closer to Tucson. LUV YA Phoenix friends

Edification: spelled Patagonia 'Patagon' which methinks is tres Roman bacchus (hic) and nada to do with AZ

Phoenix has more resorts, golf courses, museums, movie theatres, shopping malls and really great restaurants. We have snow at times and great monsoons (courtesy of Tucson)... but, Tucson is a nice town too.

WE have more natural beauty ..... To much concrete in Phoenix.

And we have Gammage and lots of live theatre.

We have birdies too. I have quite a menagerie in my backyard. I just observed a hummingbird behavior for the first time today..... need to ask Birdlady Susie about it.

WE have lots of hiking trails of all levels, reservoirs, boating, .... and we even have the GREAT wines made/grown in the valley's near / east of Tucson.... we have those wines! We have them, too!

Dear Aguane 'golf' and 'spring training baseball' has us BOTH hooked on Phoenix. After all, I have a roadster. I can go find those birdies HUGE brain scrinching involved.

Susie I have a hummingbird nest on my patio built in a hanging ornament. On March 29 th both eggs hatched but on April 7th a new egg showed up in the nest. No one knows what is going on. A third egg that appears that long after the other two have hatched seems odd.. I am no longer on DG, could you ask her about this for me? If you do I will stop bad mouthing Phoenix.

Good! It's settled! Phoenix. Maybe Central east side to put you closer to a roadster trip to Ramsey Canyon. But, Phoenix might just have it all whilst you're "s'birding" in AZ.

http://www.sabo.org/birding/hu...

ANOTHER reason we luv AZ peoples

Do-si-do (twirl, twirl) I'm SO staying aroundabout this

LOL
I'm no longer on DG either... I'll see if I can send her a D-mail ..... or I'll ask Kelly to send her one re your third egg. Strange. Are the original two (?) fledglings still in the nest?

Yes they are still in the nest. My friend Margaret posted the picture I sent her of this on the Bird Watching site at DG. That was before I knew non payers can get on that forum. It is posted on the " New egg in with hummingbirds question site" . Thanks for any help. I think I will post the photo here in a few minutes. I am on dial up so it takes a long time.

Linda