Tangled Branches: Cultivated
happenings in and around my zone 6b gardens in northern Virginia and in central Virginia
Monday, March 14, 2005
Sunny, but Cold
Spring continues to unfold s l o w l y. It was darned cold today, even though the sun was bright. No warm-up predicted for a while either. The narcissus and the crocus are happy enough, and they'll probably last a bit longer this year with the weather this way (unless it snows again). The next things in bloom will be Ice Follies and Tete-a-Tete narcissus. I'm not overly fond of either one of those, but because they provide flowers early, they haven't been thrown on the compost heap . We'll take just about any kind of flower this time of year. I love the dark purple crocuses though (the picture makes it look lighter than it really is); must remember to order more of those next fall.
The pine warbler is still around and I still don't have a picture of it.
2 Comments:
It is interesting to me that your flowers seem to be a bit farther along than mine. For instance, I have one bold crocus blooming. The rest have just started coming up.
BTW, I put a link to your blog on mine. You've got a great site here.
Thanks for the kind compliments (and the link!).
We're a few miles south of Sterling...but that probably doesn't account for the difference. What type of crocuses do you have? Mine are mostly C. tommasinianus varieties, which are early. I have a few 'Cream Beauty' which bloomed even earlier (still a few remaining flowers). But I don't have a clue as to the identity of my early, early, early narcissus.
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