In return for soldiering on through the LONGEST WINTER IN HISTORY, today Karma has smiled down upon us and rewarded us with the promise of Spring. Warm, gentle breezes, BIG blue sky, 20-degrees and blooms, blossoms, buds and did I mention BLOOMS are popping up all over our property!
After hibernating all winter, this morning I could not get my cleaning bucket out fast enough to wash down all my windows. I unleashed my inner domestic goddess and scrubbed and polished every window within an inch of its life, erasing 6 months of wind, rain, snow and dirt and in some cases, dog snout snot. It's nice to be able to see out of them again, because once I could actually see out the windows, I noticed that OH MY GOD - not only are my crocuses up, but tulips and daffodils are on their way too.
My heart did a little jump for joy when, upon closer inspection of my flower beds, I discovered that not only did I survive THE LONGEST WINTER EVER, but so did my clematis and lilacs. The tender shoots of my hydrangea are just starting to poke up and dare I say it, but so did the pretty yellow shrub that I can't remember the name of - it's doing okay too and is just covered with tiny little buds. And so are my peonies. My second most favourite flower ever, I planted two bushes last spring and patiently waited for their big, showy flowers to appear in July. Um, ya, not so much. Evidently peonies don't flower the first year they're planted, but guess what? That's right, this is YEAR NO. 2 so I fully expect to see big, braggadocious, bold and showy pink flowers this year.
We spent our morning cleaning up the detritus that landed in our yard over the winter - fallen, dead branches, entire boughs of evergreen trees, a dead mouse or two and even an empty Guinness bottle we think was left-over from our wedding last August. We pulled deadfall out of the ground and cut back some of our perennials. We raked and we swept and we congratulated ourselves for delivering a nicely green lawn so early in the year (as if we had anything to do with it). We are HOME-OWNERS. We are LANDSCAPERS. We will soon be VEGETABLE farmers. But mostly what we are now is EXHAUSTED.
Excellent, what are we going to do when you go on holidays and there is no blog to read.
ReplyDeleteThe growing season in Ontario isn't long enough to grow peppers from seed. I suspect it's not long enough in PEI, either. Buy plants.
ReplyDeleteI love peonies, too. I consider them the floozies of my flower bed - gorgeous, if somewhat overdone. Can't resist bringing huge bunches into the house.