Springing

Another beautiful day, spent mostly indoors at work. Perhaps the best thing about a garden is coming home to it. Too tired for anything more than a nice wander around after dinner, to see if anything new was happening. Tried out the new pruners, though, beginning what I hope will be a successfully stern conversation with some of the roses on the property.

The ostrich ferns have proper fiddle heads on them now, as they continue to unfurl, and the lilies are taller every time I look. The strawberry vines are blooming, and there's a promising-looking clump of lupines where the garden meets the woods. There are a few spindly low stands of lilacs, exactly where I had been thinking some might be nice. Will add their encouragement to my ever-growing list of gardening pursuits. Found my own evidence of our recently spotted deer neighbors, in the form of cloven hoof prints near what I have decided is indeed an apple tree.

Now, look, a lot of you have written to suggest my plan for the grapevines just isn't a reasonable one. Certainly, they'll require more support than I had originally suggested, and so it's back to the Thinking on that particular front.

The peepers were loud earlier, but seem to have quieted down now as temperatures take an overnight dive. Looks like seeds are germinating in the greenhouse. More on that later.

Here's a lovely clump of primroses blooming behind the house.