My office window looks south over the lawn toward the road. The house sits higher than the road, and there's a raised area and then a gentle slope down the lawn. In that raised area we've planted a forsythia bush and a star magnolia.
For some reason, they have been slow to bloom this spring, despite the fact that we had a reasonably gentle winter. But today.....they are both starting to show their glory! I plan to take my trusty disposable camera out to record some of that beauty, so perhaps I'll be able to share it with you before Spring is over.
On the north side of the house we have a wonderful patch of naturalized Spring flowers that have a blue bloom. I think they might be "squill" but I'm not certain. One of the joys of living in one place for a length of time is that you get to see how natural things develop and expand. This patch was tiny 15 years ago, and now it's spread. The best part of it is that the bulbs or seeds must be spread by our wildlife, because I have tiny blue blooms popping up all over the place! What a gift!
Happy Spring to you all!
Comments (6)
Happy Spring and Easter to you Buffy.
I know what you mean about living in one place for a long time. I have lived most of my life on this road...easily 35 years and can remember how things were when I was a child. Now, there are people living on my road who I don't even know.
The look of our yard has changed as well. Right now, it could use a face lift!
Posted by Dr. D. | April 9, 2004 12:23 PM
Posted on April 9, 2004 12:23
dag nabbits, how I wished ya lived close by me. My thumb is as far from green as one can be. I have even managed to kill a cactus and even an air fern. I would love to have a lush garden, of tulips. I plan on one day trying to have bluebonnets (wildflowers) frame the front of our property... God willing one day it may happen.
Posted by LoisLane | April 9, 2004 8:59 PM
Posted on April 9, 2004 20:59
Dr. D--Do you understand how flummoxed you make us oldsters feel by saying that 35 years ago you were a child?
Buffy--I'll have to look up "squill" to see what the heck it is. There is some tiny green stuff that I started pulling out of one of our beds, yesterday, until I realized that it made pretty good ground cover and has pretty little (teeny tiny) blue flowers. I need to look it and your "Squill" up to see if they might be one and the same. What a coincidence that would be. Happy Easter and spring to you!
Posted by Cop Car | April 9, 2004 11:09 PM
Posted on April 9, 2004 23:09
My crucus are finally blooming, so the forsythia can't be far behind - can it?
I believe I planted squill last year, but it hasn't come up yet so I don't know what it looks like (and unfortunately I won't know what it is when I look at it). I should be more organized about my planting or at least make a list of what is where - but it's probably more fun to see the looks on peoples' faces when they ask what a plant is and I tell them that I have no idea!
Posted by bogie | April 10, 2004 6:32 AM
Posted on April 10, 2004 06:32
Oh, well, Bogie comes by it honestly. I think that I spend half of my weeding time pulling things that I planted and forgot about, then didn't recognize.
Posted by Cop Car | April 11, 2004 3:33 PM
Posted on April 11, 2004 15:33
Ummm...sorry Cop Car....I had no idea that I was one of the 'kids' who reads this site.
Posted by Dr. D. | April 11, 2004 8:27 PM
Posted on April 11, 2004 20:27