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Crocuses!!
HEY HEY!! Went outside into the blustery winds this morning and
checked the western raised bed and it has SEVEN crocuses!! There they were, looking like the crocus fairy had risen during the wee hours, brushed the snows that hadn't completely melted away, and carefully coaxed each mature bud from between the slender, grassy leaves that were protectively wrapped around each blossom, then while the flowers were being born, took his detail brush, and carefully painted pin stripes of purplish pink along the soft lemon yellow petals. Across from the one snowdrop that I had found yesterday in the snow, was another one, standing proudly against the dark, moist, cold soil. The other one was more timid.....it was smaller, but had strived to put out a flower equally as magnificent as it's sister just a short way aways. It looks like the fairies are putting out the lamps to light their way thru the raised bed in the wee hours of the morning. These are the teeny snowdrops that come first. They don't have the dots of green on each petal near the tips, but had a green thumb smudge at the base of each flower near the top of the stem. Pure magic. The winds threaten to tear the hair out, and thru the swaying of my massive jack pines, I smell the warming soils. The wind wheel is turning so fast the colors are all running together. The birds are hanging on tight to the feeders and I gaze at them in humor. "HANG ON MARGARET, it's gale winds, hold yer feathers tight!"! GBSEG Sunny today, and despite the threat of moisture rolling thru again, this is what we gardeners live for. Each little bulb emerging to give us hope that spring, though not totally here yet, is just in the wings with another amazing show. thanks for allowing the time to share again with you. I have changed newsgroup servers and hopefully this one will work......... madgardener up on the blustery ridge, back in fairy holler where the fairies are slowly waking up and going about their routines in this garden, overlooking a scrubbed English Mountain in Eastern Tennessee, zone 6b |
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