The Great Bee Hunt

Here are some of the first pictures I took with that camera I was so excited about Friday. I was almost as excited to see my peonies weather a few days of rain without all the petals falling off. Too bad there’s no room for bees to get into them. That’s okay. I’ve got [...]

Is it really only April?

It’s been really hard to restrain myself from telling you about the garden this week. I planted raspberries and blueberries and lilies.
The first tulips are flowering.

Spring countdown

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

…one, two, three–many daffodils…

…two orchids…
And…um

Starting to believe in spring

Spring is coming even inside the house. Like this orchid, for instance. No matter how I neglect it, every year it puts up a shoot of flowers. Meanwhile, there’s quite a bank of snowdrops developing outside.