*A lame reference to Gabriel Garcia Marquez' great novel, Love in the Time of Cholera.
Spring is trying to come on, but winter doesn't want to leave and creates some nasty, freezing nights, with lots of rain. Therefore, I had to replant my peas, which are again struggling to come up, and aside from lettuce and carrots, I can't get anything else planted.
So, we'll just look at the beautiful things that are managing to stay alive (and avoid being eaten by deer), like this little 'Jane' magnolia.
Pay no attention to those dandelions at its feet.
The new tulip beds are not disappointing.
'Cassata' - the earliest daffodil
'Louvre' tulip
'Pink Enchantment' daffodil
'Altruist' daffodil
'Thalia' daffodil and red-veined sorrel
'Mistress Mystic' tulip
'Mistress Mystic' tulip and 'Pippit' daffodil
In the meantime, I've been nursing along my seedlings, which are looking good and wanting homes in the earth, and have been receiving some live plants that I'm going to put in my perennial garden. I've been hesitant to order live plants other than the roses, but I like the way Ohio Spring Hill Nursery packages theirs, sealing them up in cardboard sleeves and gluing down the cellophaned root ball so the plant doesn't slide around. I'm going to add a link to their website in the right-hand column of places "Where I Buy."
On sunny days, the stray cat, who is now a permanent resident, likes to hang out with me in the garden. The bed of crimson clover makes a comfy, sweet-smelling spot to rest when he's finished leaping about in it pretending to stalk jungle game.
The lilacs are blooming. Ah, the lilacs.
Stay safe. Stay at home. This, too, shall pass.
