Slow to open, but getting there!

These were neatly tucked in when I hung them this morning. It looks like they were tested and not found wanting! I only managed to plant six because I’m dog-tired and doing laundry, but the taro bulbs are starting to sprout, so I’d best do something with them soon! This is the most fully opened […]

I don’t know whether this is one I planted or the one the old lady left that I divided (the latter, maybe), but it’s the first!

Feels more like spring, and this beautiful thing was waiting for me when I got home! There are half a dozen more almost ready, but this is the first Parview crocus.

Sprang be sprangin’, even if this week will be chilly. The weekend was beautiful, if windy today, and at the arse end of my second least favourite month, I’ll take what I can get. Hyacinths, working on flowers. The only good kind of Asian bush honeysuckle…dead. I cut it and painted the cabin with Bonide […]

Well, it’s not much, and they’re very small sprouts, but at least two of the crocosmia on the south side of the house have survived so far.

I don’t think the original plant survived, but I’ll guess the seeds C gave me were viable…

I took the afternoon off because I was dying to test my glass cutter and work on rocks. The only piece of glass I had to test was the door off the old entertainment stand. It didn’t take long to figure out it was tempered. I got the textured paint a day early, so I […]

I started getting nest material ready to put out for my birds. I washed the cat hair that I’d saved (dunno how well that’s going to work out), and washed about half of the wool I got last year, but too late for nesting season. I’d got a couple of wire-bristle slicker brushes on ebay; […]

According to folklore, if Candlemas is grey and stormy, as it was today, then winter weather will be gone. According to the famous groundhog, who did not see his shadow, spring is on the way. That remains to be seen (doubtful, but possible, I suppose), but my spring bulbs seem to believe it. The croci […]