#inmygarden 2025 It has been the coldest, wettest, windiest spring in my memory. It didn’t hit 60F in my yard until this week, when we finally got a stretch of decent weather. But just to remind us that Mother Nature always has the last laugh we also got some haze from the Canadian wildfires. It…
The first #inmygarden post of 2025. Photos taken March 29th, when these overachievers have no business poking their heads above ground. Rhubarb. Old man’s bones. Primrose. At least they aren’t blooming. Yet. Himalayan poppy. It’s still below freezing at nights, guys, give it a rest!
Continuing the yellow trend. That euphorbia this time last year was twice as big. Many of my flowers are at least a month late. Seven of my gorgeous firewitch dianthus are in what I sincerely hope is hibernation, not actually dead. Half of the grass in my yard is dead and I’ve bought a pair…
Why is everything that blooms first in my garden yellow? Except, of course, for the much-beloved forget-me-not.
This was the first big bloom in my garden last year — a drift of pale yellow primrose. This is what it looks like this year. Yeah. This is what a long, cold spring looks like. #shiver
Not forgetting the wildlife.
