What’s In The Garden Now?
When I moved into my new house, Fall had pretty much set in real good. The leaves were long gone from my crabapple trees in the front yard and my lilac trees along one side of the house. There were two bushes at each end of the front of the house, which I’m told are rhododendrons, and a bunch of really dead looking plants in the front garden.
I’ve been looking forward to Spring and the possibilities of a garden since January and then the snow finally hit Maine and just. would. not. go. away. It lingered like a relative who doesn’t know he’s outstayed his welcome, borrowed too much money, and eaten all of your stockpile of junk food. And then he had two really wild parties two weekends in a row before taking off until next year — you know, he’ll stay away just long enough that we’ll forget how frustrated we were by this year’s visit.
By the time the snow had gone, I’d given up on gardening. My dreams of a vegetable garden and sunny afternoons planting flowers in the yard had somehow drifted away through the long days of staring at a plain white yard. I’d come to believe that there was nothing but snow underneath all that snow…and even when the snow had begun to melt away and grass began to peak through, it was only a taunt because another Nor’Easter would just cover it up with another 10 or 12 inches of more snow.
But finally after that horrible Nor’Easter April 15th - 17th when first the snow pounded the North East and then the rain and wind came with such intensity and timing that water was pouring down the outside of my chimney and seeping up through the foundation of my basement floor, suddenly Spring arrived, not with a whimper, but with a bang — the beginning of mud season.
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