These past few weeks have been glorious: sunshine, birdsong, and an explosion of flora. The dogwoods have mostly faded now, but they were incredible, like shimmering tufts of snow.
And the Azaleas, be still my heart, I’ve never seen anything like it. They’ve got every shade imaginable here, from office-paper-white to soft, fluttery pink to vibrant, electrifying violet. And when they flower it’s all at once, this avalanche of pure, saturated color. It’s overwhelming, really. I’ve almost crashed my car from it. Seriously!
While I haven’t been blogging much, it’s only because my fingers have been too caked in dirt to go near my computer. That’s right, the garden is in full effect, and I couldn’t be happier with it. To date I’ve planted an absurdly ambitious assortment of goodies in my little space. Though now that everything is starting to come up, I think there’ll be a lot of tough love to be shown as, well, 15 Buttercrunch lettuce heads can’t really share a one-foot square of bed space, how ever well-intentioned.
All in all there are about 25 containers out there now,
plus I’ve built two small raised beds and loaded them with seeds (most of which have sprouted!). But the most exciting developments so far have to do with the plants I bought impulsively back at the end of February
The eggplants have displayed their first purple flowers,
the lettuce has been eaten and enjoyed, and my violet bell pepper plant is steadily growing two of the most fantastic-looking peppers I think I’ve ever seen.
!!!
Of course all this garden reverie is not without the occasional looming cloud. Lately the weather channel has been whispering about a serious chill sweeping in over much of the country. Down here’s not supposed to be hit nearly as hard as some of the North, but then again, gardeners up there probably don’t have such a precarious hope chest of tender seedlings already sprouting through the soil…
I’m crossing my fingers! Send warm thoughts, please!
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