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Harbingers of spring
TPP had the opportunity to have a walk around the gardens. Signs of spring are everywhere. The witch-hazel are flowering, as are the snowdrops. Winter aconite is lifting its flowers and showing the bright yellow perianth, although it appears to be growing in a new location, so it seeded in or some new corms were planted and TPP doesn't remember. Now let's check the date: Feb. 25th. Yes, that's early, but witch-hazel has flowered earlier by a week or so on several occasions; this would set a new record for the winter aconite which has never flowered before March 5 before. This is only about 3 days earlier for snowdrops. No idea which of these harbingers is most reliable. The buds are swelling on the silver maple trees, and the filbert pollen catkins have elongated. Got a bit of snowy rain but nothing to really discourage these real early flowers. Picked a couple of forsythia branches to see it we can force some early flowers.
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Spring is a season full of hope. Spring is my favorite season.
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