Friday 30 May 2014

An Unusual Spring

The garden has barely been planted yet the rhubarb is already trying to bolt. 

Saturday 24 May 2014

Finally! Spring-like Sprouting

The weather suddenly turned warm; the tulips are being smothered by the rhubarb.
The ferns have fiddleheads and the Lily of the Valley is sprouting everywhere.
Where we once had one fern we now have 18.
Sprouting clover.
Scilla.


And the rabbit-pruned rosebush is alive after all.

Sunday 4 May 2014

The City Giveth...



(Piles of sand on the boulevard. )

...and the city taketh away. 

(18 inches of grass scraped away by the plows. )
One of the downsides of spring.

Friday 2 May 2014

Rhubarb is Creepy

When it first starts growing.