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Although we've not had snow, there was a quarter-inch of fluffy frost on the deck and platform feeder yesterday morning. But spring is definitely here.

All the peonies are up (the early one is over a foot tall, the middle one is about 8" tall, and the slacker is just now poking through). I think the lack of afternoon sun had as much effect on their growing as anything else -- they're off the east side of the house, so while they have full sun in the morning, the shadow of the house creeps across the flower bed, and the slower peony gets shaded first.

The northeast flowerbed is progressing through its bulbed blooms -- first there were the giant crocuses, then the short species tulips, then the hyacinths, early daffs & mid-tulips, and now the white daffs. There are more tulips budding, and the blue clip geranium and lavender are both growing nicely. I'm still weeding that bed. sigh. (OK, so part of it is that I did more yardwork than I should have last weekend, and something in my back got shifted out of place and I was dealing with a pinched nerve early last week. It's settled out now to some extent -- it doesn't hurt anymore, but there's an interesting pattern of "no sensation" on my right foot.)

The oak trees are finally budding -- these are historically among the very last trees to bud. We got them from my parents, and I remember the parent trees always being slow to leaf out in the spring. The new black gum is budding, too. I don't know if this is the usual time for it to bud, or if it's slow due to being moved last year.

The rose bush is leafing out, despite the major surgery we performed on it a month ago. It hadn't been pruned since we put it in 10 years ago, and it really needed it. I don't know if it needed to be cut back as severely as it was, but it seems to be doing OK. We'll see how it looks when it blooms.

Date: 2010-04-21 12:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] norfacoflandra.livejournal.com
Some roses seem to like butchery, er, pruning. Dad had a graft of Peace that would grow 6' tall off a nearly ground level prune every year.

Date: 2010-04-21 01:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rono-60103.livejournal.com
I don't know if it will head your way or not, but Southern California is in the grips of a mid-winter stom this morning. It's rare to even get rain around here after early April, and here we're getting possibly an inch (we're a desert) over the next day or so in late(ish) April.

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