[Magdalen] Spring X 2. English Burned.

[cantor03 at aol.com]

English Ivy, that is.  My property seems to have
fared the winter well here in NE Pennsylvania USA except for the
previously luxuriant wrap around display of English ivy on a pine to the
front of my deck.
 
It's heavily winter burned and there are portions that appear 
to be just plain dead.  I suspect it will rebound eventually, but
this has set the vine cluster back a few years.  It's odd to have
occurred over a relatively mild winter here.
 
Right now, the larches are that incredible green as the trees bud
out.  Biggest and most spectacular larch is the now 60' Tamarack
at the front.  It's the one I dug up at my wild 80 in Chippesa
County, Wisconsin, and brought back in a plastic ice cream pail.
 
And the large lily-flowered magnolia just next to that larch has
purple buds the size of a hen's egg.
 
Willkommen Fruhling!
 
 
David S.