Thursday, March 05, 2009

Sleepy Garden (er)



This spring the garden (and this gardener) are having trouble shaking off the torpor of a long winter. Today was the first really warm day (shirt-sleeved 68), yet the ground is basically still frozen solid to the point that a sharp knife will not penetrate it (I tried). The only things blooming are a few patches of Galanthus elwesii, the early snowdrop. In wandering about the somnolent garden this morning, it suddenly struck me: even the birds were just sitting around; not a chirp, not a tweet, not a single song. What gives?
In looking back, I see that this is the latest spring ever in the garden for bloom times; by now the early snowdrops have usually come and gone. This year half of them haven't even opened. I haven't gardened, I haven't blogged about the garden, I've hardly set foot in the garden.
Yet, by this afternoon, with the warm sun bearing down, I could count a dozen other types of snowdrops at least peeking up, and the Carolina wren and the titmouse finally shook their feathers and started calling.
It's a start...

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// posted by IBOY @ 1:14 PM
Comments:
Its the same here in Austria. Spring is very late this year. Well, here usually Galanthus elwesii starts blooming in December - but this year it took a break in January and the half of February. Galanthus nivalis always blooms later, but not so much as this year. It did not start blooming until 3 days ago - a very late start.
This time last year crocus was already in full bloom.
I hardly can wait for some warmer weather.... but the weather forecast for the weekend says cold and rainy. At least the ground is not frozen any more.

Greetings from Austria
# posted by Blogger Unknown : March 05, 2009
 
You have more than I do to show for your walk around your yard. I found one little tiny early crocus..yea!
# posted by Blogger Shady Gardener : March 06, 2009
 
I don't know about the plants--never got anything tidied up last fall; they may have given up on me--but I did hear lots of birds as I headed out to work this morning. And there's no more snow cover.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : March 06, 2009
 
No... it must be nice to have snowdrops in December; it would make winter more tolerable.

Shady... nada for crocuses blooming here, though some are up.

Judith... even today, another warm day, the birds just seem quiet. Strange.

Don
# posted by Blogger IBOY : March 06, 2009
 
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