Comments on: What’s In The Garden Now? http://nmallory.exit-23.net/20070425/whats-in-the-garden-now & Other Discombobulated Thoughts Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:19:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: wil http://nmallory.exit-23.net/20070425/whats-in-the-garden-now#comment-25228 wil Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:51:05 +0000 http://nmallory.exit-23.net/20070425/whats-in-the-garden-now#comment-25228 As a Mainer married to a displaced Southerner (Louisiana), I do understand your frustration with this particular "Spring." Those (yellow blooms) be Daffodils; the purple is a snow crocus (I think) and the red stems are beyond my ken. Keep an eye open for lavender and wild strawberries as soon as the tulips start heading out in the open away from protected areas. Never lose sight of the fact that the next four months are time to prepare for the next winter a'coming. It is THAT fact more than anything which disheartens folks from south of the Mason Dixon line ... the inexorable return of winter with everything else merely a prelude or sloppy seconds to the main event. That survival mentality required is often an entirely new experience to those who consider a rough winter to be a dusting of snow in January and tornadoes in February. Good luck! As a Mainer married to a displaced Southerner (Louisiana), I do understand your frustration with this particular “Spring.” Those (yellow blooms) be Daffodils; the purple is a snow crocus (I think) and the red stems are beyond my ken. Keep an eye open for lavender and wild strawberries as soon as the tulips start heading out in the open away from protected areas.

Never lose sight of the fact that the next four months are time to prepare for the next winter a’coming.
It is THAT fact more than anything which disheartens folks from south of the Mason Dixon line … the inexorable return of winter with everything else merely a prelude or sloppy seconds to the main event. That survival mentality required is often an entirely new experience to those who consider a rough winter to be a dusting of snow in January and tornadoes in February.

Good luck!

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