Spring is truly here. The crocuses have come and gone, the daffodils are in full bloom, and the tulips are budded. The dark red velvet buds on the maples have unfurled into orangey-rose blossoms, and their leaves are starting. We’re having really warm weather, and the leaves on the poplar and birch are just exploding. The sugar plum tree is in flower. I have put some flower seed into the ground, and done some weeding, and we’ve filled in the rock pile we cleared the wild raspberries from last year with fresh dirt, ready for flowers – we now have 6 separate flower / rock gardens at the side of the house. And we’ve bought a tiller so we can start the vegetable garden in the front field this year. (The bugs are back, so it’s about time to put in the vegetable garden.)
The goldfinches and pine siskins have arrived. We’ve taken in the big seed feeder, since the chickadees aren’t visiting much any more, but left the little ones for them. And the hummingbirds are back – I hung out their feeders yesterday.
In the sunroom, the tomatoes are all transplanted into their second pot. All three calla lilies have sprouted, and five of the seven canna lilies. The morning glories and scarlet runner beans look like they well soon take over the room – I will have to untwine them from each other in order to transplant into the beds in front of the little cabin (and remember, next year, to start them later!) The pumpkins, squash, and cucumbers have sprouted, as have the violas. The four o’clocks are doing well; I am curious to see what they’re like because I haven’t grown them before. They get their name from their habit of flowering and producing fragrance late in the afternoon. The hollyhocks are hanging in there but not growing much, and most have a dead leaf or two; I am keeping my fingers crossed (and will also plant seed in the ground at the end of the month).
It’s now been a year since I started this journal, and we’ve completed a cycle of the seasons. I have no idea whether anyone is reading it – I do realize that the kind of “news” I provide is not the kind to engender much in the way of comments. So – I will let it lie fallow for now. If anyone out there likes to read it, please leave me a comment saying so, and I will continue! But for now – signing off from Kenabeek.
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