Spring peers up from beneath the ground

[primsong]

All right, it's officially Spring. I can tell because I have dirt under my fingernails again and a nice tall stack of chickweed and dandelion carcasses scrabbled out from in, around and among the sea of daffys just starting to open. I went out before dawn this morning and it was warm enough to not need a coat, and all the world was filled with birdsong.

I planted a ceanothus this week, gave my lavenders a haircut, placed two fig trees for digging in and checked on my mason bees, who have not quite come out yet. The grasses are springing up beneath the trees in a green surely only seen in heaven, looking delicate as velvet and beautifully uneven in its thick, soft moundings. Everywhere I look the bluebells are putting up leaves, the crocuses are sprinkling their colors through the ferns and pine needles.

I need to get my more mundane vegetables in - the hellebores got its picture taken this morning, the cyclamen was oohed and aaahed at, but did I get the supports propped into place for the humble greenbeans? Try try again.

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

Very busy of you! Your garden sounds nice and your fingers very green.

And your account is heading back to poetry... :-)

[iorhael94.livejournal.com]

Love your gardening posts :) Bob is planning on spending the day gardening as well. We have oodles of lush purple crocuses under our Japanese Maple. And I have noticed the birds singing a lot more...yay! :)

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Oodles is the perfect word - Suits the cheeriness of a flower-carpet. Best of luck with your early plantings!

[alouzon.livejournal.com]

We've still got snow up here periodically. No gardening yet!

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Hope it melts for you soon - nothing nicer than those first weeks of honest spring. Start your seeds!

[estellye.livejournal.com]

You've really got chlorophyll in your blood. Spring wakes you up as much as it does the plants, I think.

All the lovely decorative pear trees they plant everywhere here are in full bloom now which makes everything pale green dotted with heavy white clouds. We have more white trees in Spring than we do in Winter in North Carolina. :)