natter, mostly garden.
Apr. 18th, 2016 08:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkJ put the pump in the pond a couple of weeks ago. I've already cleaned the pump once, this time it was mostly leaves and some algae -- no dead frogs this time. The kids tell me that they've seen a couple of frogs, so they didn't all die when we got the freezing weather after they came out.
The daffodils in the front flowerbed survived the hard freeze quite well, and are currently almost all in bloom (there's a couple of late starters that are just budding right now). The daffs by the lilac are farther behind. The blue flowers in the bed by the house are in bloom now as well -- they don't attract as many bees as the crocuses did. The stuff in the East bed is just coming up now (other than the reticulated iris and the one giant crocus that the squirrels didn't dig up), but it all seems pretty healthy. We'll see how the bloom season goes.
The trees are budding, but no actual leaves. In yet another reminder that we're about two weeks behind town, weather wise, the forsythia has just now started to bud, while the ones in town are flowering. I keep forgetting that, and wear a jacket that's too warm for where I'm going.
The daffodils in the front flowerbed survived the hard freeze quite well, and are currently almost all in bloom (there's a couple of late starters that are just budding right now). The daffs by the lilac are farther behind. The blue flowers in the bed by the house are in bloom now as well -- they don't attract as many bees as the crocuses did. The stuff in the East bed is just coming up now (other than the reticulated iris and the one giant crocus that the squirrels didn't dig up), but it all seems pretty healthy. We'll see how the bloom season goes.
The trees are budding, but no actual leaves. In yet another reminder that we're about two weeks behind town, weather wise, the forsythia has just now started to bud, while the ones in town are flowering. I keep forgetting that, and wear a jacket that's too warm for where I'm going.
