I have no idea how long it takes for a crocus seed to develop into a bulb capable of flowering. I have no idea if the croci I’ve been planting have been genuinely fruitful and getting on with the multiplying thang. The purple ones come up in little purple clumps; the yellow ones are merrily [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Repeat, with a difference
Posted in Backstory, Gardening, My brain, tactless observations, tagged croci, difference, Four Quartets, impatience, Janice Peritz don't laugh, purple, stop that, TS Eliot, we've been here before, WRONG, yes on 23 February, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Unreasonable weather
Posted in Gardening, My brain, tactless observations, tagged frost, grass, kvetching, leaves, unseasonable weather on 7 February, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I should not be able to go weeding on a bright February morning. The frost should be hard, a bug-and-blight-killing cold, and the drainage trough in the alley should shimmer with thin plates of translucent ice. Instead, I have daffodils coming up in the front yard, and the bulbs I’m supposed to be chilling outside [...]
Must remember to get aconite bulbs
Posted in Backstory, Gardening, tagged aconites, baptisia, hope, rocky hillside, witch hazels, yellow on 2 February, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Back north, the witch hazels are blooming, and the first aconites are popping up around the woodlands. [sigh] I typed that sentence around New Years’, and didn’t post because there hadn’t been any aconite sightings around here. But yesterday that changed — Hurrah! They’re just so cheerful,with their bright petals and green Kermit frills. [...]
