Most of a Day in the Garden

This is the time of year when everything pops!  Right now, most of what's blooming comes from somewhere else. We've had a week of warm weather, but woke this morning to cool crisp pure sun, down around freezing.

Blooming now: forsythia, vinca, daffodils, the crocus are mostly done, heather, rosemary, grape hyacinth, jasmine.

Also about to bloom - up but not open - bloodroot. Each leaf circles a single bloom point.

I spent much of the day cleaning up on the outside corner. I cut up and bundled some of the branches that were down. I raked through the grasses on the north side to pull out last year's dead stuff. I weeded the four symmetrical beds on the north side - they had a bursting crop of the little white cress. I pulled out much of the dead stuff from the beds on the corner, cleaned up along the street, and bent the rose trellis back upright.

How pleasant to feel the outside air and sun on me while I keep moving.