Spring went straight into summer. I was gone a week. I know summer still has five weeks to go but that is the way it seemed. The big lilac bush bloomed while I was gone. There was new growth all over the place. All this in a week. I noticed the two patio tomato plants grew quite a bit. I still have not carefully inspected the garden. I am sure there are other changes. It has become the time of year I just wear tee shirts and shorts. Pretty soon I will be putting back the air conditioner in the bedroom. We discarded the thick blanket and the fan ran all night.
Tags: air conditioner, fan on all night, flowers, garden, lilac bush, new growth, patio tomato, seasons, spring, summer, tee shirts and shorts, tomato plants, warm weather
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The ten day forecast is forties high every day. That is the first time in months. Spring is less than two weeks away. Maybe the weather has turned a corner. Now I can start inspecting my garden every day for the sign of the first flowers of spring. There is still quite a bit of snow on the ground. Let us see if it melts within ten days of this “heat wave.”
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I don’t think the primrose will survive the winter. We are in the middle of an extended freeze. The last two years they never died and bloomed through out the winter. That was somewhat unusual. As hardy as they are they will not make it this time. It has been too cold, for too long. They will come up, again, in early spring and bloom then.
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I have been inspecting our bed of primrose in my yard every morning. They like this cold weather but still no more flowers. There are at least five plants in that bed but so far there has been only one flower from the bunch. A few weeks ago. I will keep an eye on them. The weather is to their liking so it should have more buds soon.
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I tracked down a praying mantis I saw earlier hours later in a bed of brown-eyed Susan. It had not moved too much. I looked really carefully. It had in its jaws a grasshopper. That is the first time this year I saw a praying mantis in our yard. I was just wondering the other day whether I would see any this year in our garden.
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The Black-Eyed Susans were finally blooming. They come up each summer and are one of the last flowers of the summer to bloom. They are annuals, that seed themselves. I thought it was unusual this year that the flowers were all at different heights–from six inches high to two feet and everything else in between. They had too much competition this year with the other weeds. I love looking at them. We have several beds of them. The flowers last for weeks. Summer is on its way out. At least it seemed that way. Summer still had eight weeks to go. The heat wave we had finally broke. And we welcomed temperatures in the eighties.
Tags: black-eyed susan's, flowers, garden, heat wave, summer, the black-eyed susan's were blooming at different heights, the weeds were crowding out the black-eyed susan's, weeds
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There is nothing like home sweet home. I was gone for a week visiting an old friend. My wife was “sigless”. In the interim, the trees have become greener and the temperature had gotten a little warmer. The lilac bush is abloom. I really have to walk around my yard to note the changes. It has not gotten too hot yet so the primrose still are blooming. I am just glad to be home. I can make my own morning coffee just the way I like to and play my own music any time I want to. I noted, again, how beautiful the area I live in is. We can get too comfortable in our own surrounding. It is good to get away once in awhile. You appreciate your wife and your immediate surroundings better.
Tags: absence makes you fonder of wife, appreciating your surroundings and wife better, flowers, garden, home sweet home, lilac bush, making your own coffee, morning coffee, my wife, Playing your own music, primrose, visiting an old friend
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There were several dozen daffodils open on the side of the house. It was only last week I checked and none were open. Last week we even had one night in the twenties. We are in the middle of a heat wave for spring. Just yesterday I discovered we had some miniature daffodils blooming. I might have bought her some miniature daffodils last year and she planted them. And up they came this year. I want to see if our fig tree made it through the cold weather. It is exciting to walk around the garden to see what is going to spring up next.
Tags: daffodils, exploring our garden in spring, fig tree, flowers, garden, spring, the miniature daffodils
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I was excited because I saw four or five singles crocuses inches from the clump I planted last year. I was told they would spread. I noticed the flowers were a little deeper purple than they were in the bed I planted. I just wondered how the new crocuses spread. Was it from seeds or do the roots spread. This discovery I only noticed today. The bed of crocuses have been blooming over a week. It is exciting to see what discovery I will make next in our garden.
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The purple crocuses were blooming a week before spring. It was only a week ago I checked the plant and there were no buds. Today I spotted purple crocuses. The daffodils were still a week or two from blooming. It had turned cold again. It will warm up, again, in two days. A friend last year gave us some plants. This is the first time they bloomed in our garden.
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One black eyed susan is blooming. The plants are growing fast and will bloom later on in the season. Right now there is one flower. Whatever possessed that one to bloom is beyond me. I will just enjoy that one. Later on there will be countless ones for there are several beds of them. Right now I will enjoy the single flower. And then maybe all the others.
Tags: black-eyed susan, early bloom, flowers, garden, one flower, plants
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I looked again and saw the three sections of ferns had unfurled and were now about ten inches high. Last year someone planted them for us. I, also, noticed the black eyed Susans had doubled in size the week I was gone. When they finally flower it will be the tail end of summer. And among the black eyed Susans plants there was one small star shaped white flower that somehow made its way through that bed. These were just a few discoveries I made this morning in my short walk around our garden.
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