Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 6.7

by: Frankenoid

Sat Apr 10, 2010 at 09:20:04 AM MDT

The weather this week was strangely familiar - lovely weather on Monday with the high breaking 70°; a cool down on Tuesday; on Wednesday - my day off - mid-week snow making it too wet to work outside.

Again.

Shit.

It wasn't a ton of snow - just enough to get everything wet again.  And to weigh down the top-heavy, just-bloomed hyacinth.  On Thursday I went around and picked all the hyacinth which were lying on the ground.

What else could I do?  It was too wet to bury the soaker hose.

Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 6.6

by: Frankenoid

Sat Apr 03, 2010 at 07:46:48 AM MDT

Good morning, and we're singing the blues.  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.

What a difference a week makes.  On Tuesday, a week after a storm dumped a foot of snow on us, the high temperature was 82°.  With the warmth, my hyacinth burst forth in a stunning display of sight and scent.  Because I've planted a lot of antique varieties, there are subtleties of shade, form and scent that have to been seen to be appreciated - this group of blues and purples shows it as well as I can in photographs.  Please note in the back the deep, deep indigo of King of the Blues.

It cooled down on Wednesday - we didn't even break 60° - but it was still pleasant enough to putter around outside, even if it wasn't yet dry enough to till the veggie patch.  As I went about my business in the front yard a parade of passers-by stopped to compliment and comment, including a couple of cars that stopped in the street and shouted their appreciation from opened windows.  My front yard is a magnet this time of year.

In Orange