Spring creeps in
Apr. 1st, 2003 03:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pameladeanThe Weather Underground says that the forecast for this afternoon is "Artly cloudy." That sounds about right. I took Ari out on his leash.
The small crumpled leaves of the violets are up. There are many more winter aconite sprouts. A dead stalk of dame's rocket that I noticed on Sunday and thought of, "I should move that somewhere I need more dame's rocket" has a little rosette of green around its base. The tulips are taller, and there are more of them. The peony in the warmest spot is putting up its blood-red shoots. The daylilies are rioting in green. The cranesbill geranium has new leaves. A few columbine leaves are up. The first red woundup stems of the Japanese knotweed have appeared, but all in the neighbors' yard. I wonder if the sunflower toxins really did in some of mine.
A house finch is singing a very nice run of notes, over and over and over. Eric mentioned to me in email that the elm buds looked about to burst, and when I looked at the huge elm across the street, its fuzziness was visibly red.
I am NOT taking the mulch off the flowerbeds until after this weekend. The lows are supposed to go back into the twenties.
Pamela
The small crumpled leaves of the violets are up. There are many more winter aconite sprouts. A dead stalk of dame's rocket that I noticed on Sunday and thought of, "I should move that somewhere I need more dame's rocket" has a little rosette of green around its base. The tulips are taller, and there are more of them. The peony in the warmest spot is putting up its blood-red shoots. The daylilies are rioting in green. The cranesbill geranium has new leaves. A few columbine leaves are up. The first red woundup stems of the Japanese knotweed have appeared, but all in the neighbors' yard. I wonder if the sunflower toxins really did in some of mine.
A house finch is singing a very nice run of notes, over and over and over. Eric mentioned to me in email that the elm buds looked about to burst, and when I looked at the huge elm across the street, its fuzziness was visibly red.
I am NOT taking the mulch off the flowerbeds until after this weekend. The lows are supposed to go back into the twenties.
Pamela
