Spring is in the air here! Bulbs are blooming in splendiferous quantities, everywhere you look when you go for a drive out here in the hills and likewise in our own yard. Trees are budding, especially the ten or so fruit trees we ordered this winter which seem to have settled in (almond, pecan, fig, apple x 2, plum x 2, nectarine, peach, quince, grapefruit, and apricot - lillypilly, avocado and tahitian lime waiting till slightly warmer weather to go in).
Raspberry canes and blueberries are greening up; broadbeans, peas, silverbeet and garlic lead the way in the vege patch; broccoli (thanks Paul!), radish, rocket, and beetroot are in the ground ready to spring forth. Numerous natives and flowers in pots in the backyard wait to be planted...
And much digging (by Gord) is taking place in the backyard, shaping a piece of it into terraces for a salad/herb garden...
It's a definite delight to own a patch of ground and take responsibility for it and dream about it and plant stuff in it. I've never ever thought of myself as a green thumb, but now I can see that you don't really set out to be one, it just happens out of a continued relationship to some land. I'm enjoying how this part of myself is evolving, and I'd like to think that one day someone else might call me a green thumb, in about forty years!
3 comments:
Those bulbs are glorious! Enjoy the sproinging of spring!
Anna
Everything's looking so beautiful! Bizarre to think of your going into spring mode while we're harvesting and canning and beginning to think about bundling up in sweaters in front of our wood stove!! (although today the forecast is for +29 degrees!! i think that's a record for my birthday.)
I think you're thumb is green already, just perhaps inexperienced, in your opinion. But plants seem to know when their caretaker sees them as belonging to the same circle of life, and not something to be dominated or dictated to. Soon you'll have a jungle ;)
p.s. Happy Birthday, Gord! (is your birthday today? it's soon anyways, because i remember some tremendous baklava had last year in celebration!)
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