Signs of Spring in our Yard
/The daffodils are coming up in our front flower beds. There are more of them every year…poking through the dried oak and day lily leaves from last season.
The miniature daffodils are always the first to bloom. Maybe their shortness is a benefit – keeping them closer to the warmth of the decaying mulch. I’ll dig a few of the bulbs up to take with us when we move just as I did from our previous house; my mother-in-law bought the original bulbs more than 30 years ago, not long before she died, and they have been very prolific…a nice reminder of her every spring.
The irises seem to be more numerous in the chaos garden than last year. Hopefully they’ll do well this year too. I might move them to where they are more easily seen from the house.
Several years ago, I planted some daffodil bulbs in front of our brush pile at the edge of the forest. Now they are behind the brush pile because I keep moving the pile further into the yard (reducing the turf area a little each year)! The bulbs were planted about a foot apart from each other; every year the clumps of daffodils get bigger.
So - there are the usual signs of spring appearing…always welcome. As I walked around I noticed lots of deer tracks; there is a muddy deer highway through our yard!
