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Friday Slide Show: The Garden Prepares For Spring
21 March 2025
Thursday is garbage night so we take our green bin or yellow bucket, depending on the damage, and go around the garden cleaning things up. A bit. This week, though, we noticed a few signs of spring. Subtle but spring.
The first was the strong light falling on the fence at an angle unfamiliar to winter. We moved here in May 2003, so 22 years of visual memory rang a bell when we opened the door to go to the garden on the first day of spring.
And the cala lilies along that fence only seconded that sensation. Which we could say about the Improved Meyer Lemon tree and the old clay pot as well. The light just struck them differently.
Just a very few things were blooming but the apple tree and popcorn rose had new leaves already.
There was still water in the bird bath from the winter rainstorms. And the weather had stayed in the 40s at night rising only to the mid-50s during the day.
That doesn't bother the rosemary bush or the succulents, happily.
It's a low maintenance landscape, planted primarily by the birds and a few generous gifts. But that doesn't mean there's no maintenance. We run over it with the weed whacker every now and then (more now than then as the weather warms) and we did notice we have a brick path or two to tidy up.
But we don't mind and even look forward to it. That, after all, is our idea of a gym membership.
