Hold still, daffodils

Bumblebees are buzzing me. Do they hold still? No. Mysterious little brown bees are patrolling the ground. Do they hold still? No. They’re so quick, I’m not even sure they’re bees.  Where can I get a picture? Daffodils. They hold still.

Good old golden daffodils

Here you go: the obligatory spring bulbs, and you can’t get much more obligatory than golden yellow daffodils. The garden just isn’t complete without them.

Cloudy skies, sunny flowers

Since when are pansies wimps? They make it through the winter just fine, or at least mine do. When I’m looking for fall pansies, I pick the old-style whiskery ones that aren’t so huge and overbred.  So here’s the first one flowering today.
The daffodils also decided to offer their bit of light to a grey, [...]

Why you should leave leaf litter on the ground

The flowers look amazing right now, but the really amazing awakening is what you hear at night.

First fruits

Here’s the first batch of daffodils cut. They’re now on my desk, exuding so much soapy scent, I’m sneezing.
And my fruit trees arrived!

Spring countdown

The garden countdown to real spring continues. There’s…

…one, two, three–many daffodils…

…two orchids…
And…um