[Magdalen] Spring flowers and weather.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Hurrah for daffodils and tulip sightings! Even more celebration over the joy a garden or gardening can bring to the heart!  I finally got my annuals in 2 weeks ago, tweaking ever since with a snip here and fertilizer there for those who survived (the roots) our temps in the 20s in January and are finally showing themselves. Have started cuttings from pruned bracches of various flowering bushes and am grateful for the mostly moderate weather that allows morning coffee on the patio before the sun shines down on it, looking out at my garden. I've even gotten the cardinals to visit one of the feeders - I think they're very leery because they're about 8" in under my patio ceiling. Only the smaller birds feed while I'm on the patio , IF I don't move around too much LOL. 

....nearer God's heart in a garden
Lynn 

On Apr 30, 2017, at 7:08 AM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:

Some of my daffodils are blooming, neighbourhood Forsythia blooming brightly,  little Dutchman's Breeches is out as is Hepatica.  Hellebore, too.  Tulips are well up, but only the species on the sunny side of the shed are in cheery bloom.   There was a tough old Bleeding Heart growing out of the foundation near my front door; it had to be removed for my 'dance floor' parking pad.  I could only save the first maybe 18" of the root and I stuick it in a shallow trench in the lee of my garden shed without much hope.  But, lo! it broke through the other day.  Yay!

Rainy today, but good for newly planted perennials, lots of them.  I had a two-hour session at a now-distant, but favoured, garden centre -- expensive, but satisfying.  Prerty well everthing came through the winter so I am adding to and fleshing out the collection.  Happiness is ....   It's a welcome distraction from a thorny church situation that we Wardens must resolve in a couple of days..  The outcome will be great or a f-----g disaster.

Marion, a pilgrim


> On 4/29/2017 11:22 PM, ME Michaud wrote:
> Speaking of climate change,
> I saw lilacs flowering today in Somerville, Mass.
> 
> At home (55 miles north of Somerville) lilacs bloomed on Memorial Day (May
> 31st).
> -M
> 
> On Saturday, April 29, 2017, Charles Wohlers <charles.wohlers at verizon.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> Great weather up here. Spent the afternoon on the State House Lawn at the
>> local Climate Change Rally. Heard Bernie & others. Rallies & such are
>> generally not my thing, but this one was at least decent.
>> 
>>