I smell...

[j_cheney]

....like wormwood.

Just spent two hours at my first 'spring' cut back, filling up two big blues and a roughneck with garden cuttings. Got all five wormwoords (which is why I smell), one of the Japanese vareigated grasses, the primary patch of TG&S chrysanthemums, the remains of the Glad bed, and various other things than needed cleaning. I still have a long way to go before spring, but the trash cans are full, so I'm done for this week.

Silly plants. I noticed that the daffodils, grape hyacinths, and hyacinths are making a go for it. Also several of the perennials are putting on green, including some of the ornamental grasses. Pansies are blooming. Evidently they all think our winter is over. Silly plants.

Comments

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

Say what?
Here, snow, snow
and more snow,
five below
tomorrow.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Oklahoma....a tad warmer than your state.

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

It's nice to remember that there are green plants somewhere. ;)

[displacedtexan.livejournal.com]

We're as far north and east as we want to live. Some semblance of four seasons without the extreme winters.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Very true ;o)

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

I'll say this for our winters-they make me appreciate Spring.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

We are expecting snow flurries later this week, but it will still get into the upper 30s, so the plants should make it just fine.

[kara-gnome.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, but they must be beautiful, even if a bit confused :) It's the bravery of the thing, you know? A lesson to us all :D

I noticed that there is new grass coming up under the snow last month, but didn't think about the flowers. And the sun has been shining, too. I guess they can't help but get mixed messages. Now it makes me want to go peek at my sleepings, just to make sure they still *are* asleep!

I'm not really ready for winter to be over, though. I just love it! I think our high is going to be five degrees today, wow!

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

I'm not a winter lover, being from the desert. But I do love the spring ;o)

[kara-gnome.livejournal.com]

No, me, too, really. I've lived for the past 25 years, maybe 30, really, in the desert, and the change, I think I really, really, really needed a change, a big change. However, a few winters from now and I'll be ready for the lovely 70s in January, again, rather than these minuses :D