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| Just too much brown yet for this time of year. My PJM rhododendron still has a very brownish cast, although temperatures have been mild for a few days. The blue dwarf leaf Artic willow is starting to think about budding up its leaf buds, but typically does not set the catkins which are its "bloom" as it is typically sterile. This year, I can tell it is stressed as it have several sprays of catkins looking more like a pussy willow. The vedict on the survival of the lavender 'Munstead' and the zauschneria (California fuchia or California hummingbird plant) is still out. Even the 'Gold Coin' lysimachia looks hard hit. |
I am not sure what to think about this spring clean up in the garden. I have spent a mere handful of hours in the garden cleaning the debris from both last fall and the winter.
The grass left longer than normal, as no mowing took place after my injury, particularly in the hellstrip ditch bordered by daylilies looks better than it ever has. It was also covered by all the leaves blown or washed there as part of the villages highly evolved ditching efforts as the village sits on sort of a sandy boggy wetlands. My house, one of the first built and therefore sited on a higher place, where I needn't worry about flooding still has an impressive ditch where leaves and debris can collect.
My neighbor, Dr. Darrel Apps, and I have been conferring on what we see dead in our yards.
