This morning, Sunday, April 5, the garden is weighed down under six inches of new snow and we formally entered the season we sometimes call ‘more winter’. This can be really hard on spring birds who have already arrived up here in anticipation of nesting. Today a song sparrow was poking at the mesh sunflower feeder by our dining room window, and later Dick heard him singing in the snow...which all seemed a little incongruous. And out on our low shed roof a group of juncos were furiously digging into the snow to reach some millet seed I put there a couple of days ago.
Although is all very beautiful I am going to indulge in some day-dreaming about the spring days to come.
Here are two spring favorites that will be soon return. The first to come will be the Tete-a-Tete daffodils, among the very earliest daffodils to flower in my garden:
And by early May the primroses will here too. My yellow primroses always remind me of the English cowslips that my mother and I used to find in the woods near our house in Kent. Many years ago now I found a small plant of these 'Hose-in-Hose’ primroses at Rocky Dale, a great local nursery with its own lovely gardens in Bristol, Vermont, that specializes in unusual plants. The primroses adapted well to life in my Goshen garden, and over the years I have divided them again and again, so now each spring they light up every shady nook
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