Humbug. I am grumpy. No gardening got done at all this week-end. I have mulch waiting to go down and seedlings waiting to get in the ground and pots being shunted in and out of the garage and tomato plants that are not impressed... and I'm cold! Not to mention everyone in my family has been sick for the last week and a half - except me, which is almost worse! If I got sick at least I'd get to rest.
But back to gardening. For anyone new to gardening in Calgary, a late May cold spell and snow storm is not an unusual thing. But the length of this one is fairly unusual. For the record, the snow started falling on Thursday, kept falling most of the week-end, and we had a high of 1o C on Saturday. Today (Monday) is 8o with a risk of frost tonight. Everything is soggy and cold. Only tomorrow is it supposed to start "improving" with a forecast high of 13o.
To cheer myself up, here are a few updated pictures of things that are blooming in the garden right now. Clockwise from top left:
- crabapple tree in the butterfly potager
- euphorbia (cushion spurge) in the front welcome garden
- frillaria (checkered lily) in the back shade garden
- Saskatoon "Thiessen" in the orchard
- epimedium rubrum, tulips and leopard's bane in the front shade garden
- clematis "Blue Bird" - a super hardy variety that requires no cutting back and grows with no special care under a spruce tree! at the entrance to England
- bergenia patch
- dwarf bearded iris in the adventure garden
- daffodils finishing and pulmonaria starting
- brunnera 'Jack Frost' still blooming away in the front entry garden
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