Is it Spring Yet?

February 6, 2012 By Karen Creel

Daffodils

It’s easy to be fooled into spring when the weather has been this great for the last couple of weeks. Daffodils are blooming, my Carolina Jasmine has taken on new growth, and my Stella D Oro lilies are peeping their leaves out from the cold earth. But, the mulch needs to stay on, and we can’t be fooled. Freezing temps are headed our way late this week in the night time hours.

Stella d Oro lilies reaching for the sun.

My Carolina Jasmine has survived it’second
year, despite my husbands weed eater.

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Comments

The Editor says

February 7, 2012 at 12:01 am

It’s warm here a few hundred miles west. If January is this warm, I dread the March snow!

Nancy
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I’m not sure when my fascination with junk began, but gardening was in my blood from an early age. I remember my grandmother could throw a few seeds out and have the prettiest flowers. Sweet peas were rampant beside the front porch. I can see her now, bent over pulling weeds, and I find myself doing the same thing anytime I’m in the yard. My dad was raised on a large farm, and even though he moved away, and we always lived in the city, he had a garden. He had me help him plant a garden in May before he died in August. So you can see, gardening just comes naturally to me.

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