5:01am EST / Thursday, March 20th, 2025
The spring weather took its sweet time arriving this year (as predicted by Punxsutawney Phil), but with a slight upward trend in the temps, the peepers have taken up their spring song, the flowers have popped up overnight (literally), and we caught the first glimpse of our resident groundhog when she crawled out from under the barn for a drink of water.
I’d love to add some more crocus colors to the garden at some point, since we currently only have dark purple, and light purple ones
As mentioned in last year’s spring flowers post, in 2023 Mom, Riley Mae and I transplanted a whole bunch of spring bulbs around the perimeter of the garden.
But there were still plenty of blooming bulbs left in the brush around our yard, and last spring I got really obsessed with the idea of filling in every single open spot around the garden with them.
So naturally I spent many more hours with my hands in the dirt, hunting down snowdrops, crocuses, mini daffodils, and grape hyacinth, along with a few large daffodils that Grampa let me steal from his yard.
I was also surprised to stumble upon some tulip bulbs that were somehow still alive, despite not blooming for countless years. I’m hoping that being moved to a sunny garden bed will get some flowers out of them — we shall see in a couple months!
By the time I was done wading through the thorns and poison ivy, there really wasn’t much empty soil left to pop bulbs into, so I knew that this spring’s flower show would be even better than the last.
I’ve been patiently (and also impatiently) waiting for the first green leaves to appear, and once the first one did, it was only a day or two before all of the garden beds were fully alive.
Every morning, after I sit with Mary Todd while she eats breakfast, I go and check on my little flowers, and every morning they’ve doubled, tripled, or maybe even quadrupled in number.
The first day of spring started with them tightly wrapped up and covered in raindrops, but ended with them in full bloom, finally soaking up the (fleeting) spring warmth 💜
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