[Magdalen] weather + garden

[Jay Weigel]

We will have Virginia bluebells and bloodroot soon. I was going to go out
and take pictures today (I have a new camera) but the wind was biting and
the neighbors' nasty dogs were out. S/O took a couple of potshots at them
with the air rifle and says he hit one. I hope so. The dog may not deserve
it but its owners do.

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Be still my heart - morels  and marigolds !
> Lynn
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Mar 21, 2016, at 8:27 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> I much prefer the Pennsylvania spring to what passes for  spring
> in Northern Wisconsin.  I do miss the orderly progression of  spring
> phenomena that played out each spring in my ten acres in  Wisconsin
> each spring, however.  I'm sure all of these phenomena occur  in
> Pennsylvania, too, but I don't have the ability to note them first  hand.
> PA springs are much more gradual, and showier with the enormous
> progression of flowering trees and shrubs, nearly all of which are  not
> hardy in the Upper Midwest.
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> At my Wisconsin location, the earliest spring harbingers were in the
> nearly
> an acre of rich, deep, boggy soil with a remarkable assemblage  of
> "Jack in the Pulpits" and "Swamp Cabbage."
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> Then there were waves of triliums of the white variety and the  "Nodding
> Triliums," also white, followed by drifts of "Bloodroot."  Finally,  there
> were
> extensive "Marsh Marigolds" with their yellow blossoms.
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> There were the two gastronomical spring specialties:  "Morel  Mushrooms"
> by the bushel (great for soups) and "Watercress" with its delicate  peppery
> flavor, and also much treasured for soups.  The Watercress was  courtesy
> of a spring fed ice cold creek that emerged out of the ground on  my
> property.  The  property was interlaced with mowed trails that  were much
> beloved by humans and their dogs.
>
> A la reserche du temps perdu.
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>
> David Strang.
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