Ok, now you have one song out of your head, just to be replaced by another. I do love Don McLean, though! And Vincent is a great song. Enjoy with your morning beverage!
We had a very “unsettled” month, culminating Thursday in a huge thunderstorm with hail, although nothing like the Front Range of Colorado! Our hail was just little bits, but still… Now the weather is getting very spring-like, sunny and in the 70’s. I’m breaking out the shorts tomorrow.
Everything is just a little early this year, earlier of course than last year, and the year before, etc. etc. etc. But the iris were blooming in Grand Junction last weekend and the royal purple ones were just hitting their peak.
Grand Junction is also full of rose bushes in the public gardens. They are blooming this time of year and last into June. I love them, and they are gorgeous, but I’m happy with just the ones I have, and no more. I actually have a climbing rose that I may get rid of, it’s a pain. I also found a wild climber in one of my young Carolina poplars, it will have to be trimmed. But I did find a lovely red rose in Grand Junction that looked quite neat in growth — bushy, not climbing.
I purchased another clematis and tried and succeeded in walking out of the garden store without buying more plants because I knew I would not have time to plant them. So this weekend I’m braving all the mothers and getting some annuals going in some pots around here. Mother’s day is usually last frost date, I think we’re safe.
One of my co-workers found this book in a restaurant bookshelf for me last week. We’d been talking about our vegetable gardens, so I took a picture of it to remember the title for later. I think I’ll have the local bookstore order it for me.
Today is a local gardening festival, which I’ll be attending with some friends. However, I’ll be checking in as often as I can. This garden festival will have heirloom tomato plants!