Ah spring…
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- May
- 11
Don’t you just love this time of year, when things seem to green up before your very eyes?
One morning I’m on my hands and knees hunting for my bleeding heart, then it’s 2 or 3 inches tall the next afternoon.
Seemingly minutes later, it’s blooming.
And my tulips really shot up this year. I don’t ever remember having them up so early, before lots of the daffodils. Here’s a variety called ‘Olympic Flame.’
They were a gift from the Netherlands Flower Bulb Information Center, in honor of the Olympics this year.
They sent out a whole Olympics-themed package last fall.
These ‘Passionale’ tulips have been a real winner for me this spring, with blooms lasting for a good three weeks.
I have lots of different kinds of daffodils …
… but I always come back to the big old-fashioned ‘King Alfreds.’
I got a pack of ‘King Alfred’ bulbs from my friend Barbara Davis as a house-warming present many years ago, and they keep naturalizing out from the original bouquet.
A few tulips and late daffodils I picked yesterday:
I love these old-fashioned white jonquils.
Remember that ugly stand of pale yellow forsythia that I griped about last spring?
Well, I ripped the only thing out late last fall and I couldn’t be happier with this giant blank canvas just outside our new screened porch.
Good riddance.
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on Sunday, May 11th, 2008 at 9:25 am by Bill Cary.
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Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.
