That's not going to repeat today. We have been having properly nasty spring weather: Ice, snow, rain, sleet, icy-sleet, ice-rain, snow-ice, snow-sleet and a number of other things coming out of the sky. After a huge amount of rain over the weekend much of the built-up winter snow has gone. There are still the depressing blackened snowbanks lurking with their dog-mess surprises yet to melt, but for the most part our snowcover has gone. This means that the garden, covered with pine boughs as it is, can be now seen for the first time after its winter nap.
I pulled up a few of the pine branches yesterday and found many tulip and daffodil starts. There are some quite far advanced crocus sprouts, but I think they're so far along because they started in the fall. They didn't enjoy the boughs and they certainly didn't enjoy being encased in ice. The ice is still substantial enough in the front (which gets less sun) that I couldn't pull the boughs up to look underneath. I'm surprised by how green the oregano and grape hyacinth leaves are.
When the meteorologists were predicting sunshine for the rest of the week, I thought the bulbs would love that and come up to bloom in a couple of weeks. However, we must again banish all thoughts of sunshine from our thoughts because the predictions have reverted to their usual snow, sleet, ice, rain, etc. I guess I'll have to wait until April this year.
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