Our Yard – March 2025
/The crocus and maple are in bloom! The first blooms of spring 2025.
The daffodils and irises are up – but there are no bud stalks yet.
The rhododendron is full of buds that seemingly made it unscathed through the very low temperatures we had in February.
The shortleaf pine is beginning to drop some cones. I’ll pick them up to avoid mowing over them…and take them to my sister to use for craft projects with her grandson.
Our big wind chime tells us that it is windy outside most of the time – typical for March. It is large enough to sound like distant church bells.
The hens and chicks seem to have grown over the winter. I need to clean up the debris around them…maybe take out more rocks so they can expand more easily.
The only yard work I’ve done so far is cutting some ‘trash trees’ that were growing up into the holly, beginning to trim the yew hedge to make mulch for areas I don’t want grass to grow, and transplanted an eastern redcedar that came up too near our patio to a place where there is enough room for it to grow and provide privacy to the patio as I take remove non-native Japanese barberry bushes.
There is still plenty to do in the yard but I am doing it in sessions of less than an hour…building up for when I start mowing!
