Spring is Here, blooms at last!

Well the "green wave" hit us this past weekend. We went to bed one night with the lawns all still brown and the trees all still bare. By the following afternoon, all the laws were jade green and every tree and shrub was covered with buds!

Bulbs - right now I have some hyacinths, daffodils, and a few crocus blooming. The hyacinths came up a while ago and were mostly killed off by a hard late snow. :( I pruned them all back though and they reflowered, and are blooming right now. I have the daffs in the sun blooming now, and the ones in the shade just starting to set buds. The crocus came into bloom about a week ago and are just finishing up. They're sure pretty, but they are FAST. Bloom and gone!

We finally got my beloved blueberries in. Last weekend (not just gone but a week ago, the 14th, Pete and I alone moved FOUR TONS of materials. Stone, soil, peat, manure. I fertilized and acidified the bed with sulfur and aluminum sulfate. I have the two suffering bare root blueberries from Henry Field's at the edges and the back. In between them is a potted one from Lowes. All are Northland varietals. Any day now my drawf northblues should come, two of them, and I will plant those in the front. I have heavy pine mulch to cover them in.

While my mom was here this weekend (the 21st) we planted the shade garden. The forget-me-nots were all rotted :( But we planted the bleeding hearts, bluebells and lily of the valley.

My snowberries are all just starting to leaf out. They all look healthy and good!

My roses - sigh. After all that work I poured into them last year, I think all but one have died overwinter. They had a significant amount of rabbit damage (I looked at them this spring and thought, I didn't prune them back like that?) and they are just dry dead sticks now. The Will Baffin, the rambler at the back, has done fine. It is leafed out nicely now and looks happy. But the others are dead. They are still under warranty so I can replace them, but I'm sad and now unsure of myself as a gardener!

The lillies are starting to come up in the back.

The maple is covered in buds.

The lawn is too soft to sit a chair in but fine for walking on.

I haven't done a thing with the vegetable garden yet. It's still full of weeds and last year's stakes. I have some work to do. I gave up on almost all of my seedlings started in the window. They just got HUGE (like 2 feet tall) and leggy and in the snow I had nowhere to put them. All are gone, with the exception of the chamomile (which I can't get anywhere else.) I'm planting everything else right in the ground.

I'm finding it hard to get enthused about the garden right now. Sad, because this is usually the most exciting time! But I just feel so... apathetic. Maggie says - and I think she's right - that I should plant anyway. Because in 2 months I'll come out of my funk and be mad that I didn't do anything when I could! So I"ll make an effort.