I knew it too - sold almost all my stock the minute Trump got in. Everyone else was all excited that he would deregulate things - thank you foolish people for driving the market up temporarily. He kept talking about tariffs so I also knew it was going to be a disaster. Didn’t know he’d go so far..
I KNOW KNOW KNOW you shouldn’t trust the weather until after Easter (in TX). The notorious Easter spell. Anyway, I gambled and lost. Mulched and covered and fingers crossed.
I thought it was about your tulips heroically blooming despite the snow! I'm going to stick with my narrative. I like it better, and apparently that's how reality works these days...
Meanwhile, my mom is having a fit that her bulbs are taking their sweet time here in the SE. I predict they’ll pop out once she’s on vacation in two weeks.
Yeah people always say “I see x politician here” and it’s especially exhausting when I’ve just tried to draw a cute snake that I hope people will love.
The socials right now:
OP: here's a photo I took with a 35mm using a polarized filter
Facebook: F the tangerine tyrant
X: let's go Brandon!
TruthSocial: tariffs are tax cuts
IG: here's how to eat the rich
In the Northern California Foothills, there's an adage: "Winter's not over till it snows on the Dogwood." Not a lot of snow in the lower elevations- 2000-3000 feet this season. I have seen snow in April...
I love little... idk what you'd call it, regional lore? like that... My mom's always used to say it'll snow three more times after forsythia blooms, and it's almost always accurate (literally as soon as I see forsythia flowering I think of that lol)
I used to know a love song
It was something about a flower
That blossomed out to early
When a sunny day turned sour
Only for an hour
There's a blossom in the snow
The innocence is beautiful
But what a way to go
Frozen in the snow
Singing Spring is coming
Frozen in the snow
-David Wilcox
Tomorrow is forecast for ten degrees warmer, the snow will melt. Tuesday is supposed to be ten degrees warmer than that. Wednesday is 70s. The tulips should be okay.
Just don’t plant peaches or apricots, they will break your heart.
Just in general…there are many many folks around here who get a crop of peaches or apricots one every ten years, sigh.
The farmers with orchards here probably have a routine ready to go if a late spring storm is forecast, but the back yard growers? They get pretty flowers, though! 😉
I have reliable peaches for 20+ years, save for one year with a very late frost. The last 10 years though have seen the winters too warm so that fewer of my trees set bud, except cherries. My forsythia didn't bloom 2 years ago - so we moved to a colder climate with at elevation and am starting new.
I love when the flowers peak through freshly laid snow. I had some purple pansies that lasted 3 years, the purple and yellow petals under the white snow as just magical. Enjoy!
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer.
And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose
My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.
I'm too lazy to try to cover a 15' tall tree. Ours has hundreds of blooms and is very pretty, until the inevitable next frost. The other problem I think is that none of the pollinators are awake yet.
...as someone with a ~20 year gap in my NM residency, and finds the climate since my return... off... the native plants are probably not as used to it as one would hope. But deep roots.
And this is why I can’t ever move to Canada, despite a great fondness for it, because the only place I could garden like I’m used to would be Victoria, and who can afford Victoria?
Why did I tell mom it's cool. It doesn't matter Easter is So late this year. We can plant at the end of March. And she warned "we really shouldn't til after Easter" and now its 45.
Tulips I always get iffy results from even when I put them in pots rather than the clay. Apparently you might be getting enough cold in the winter for your tulips to naturalize and return? They're from the Anatolian plateau and are used to more cold than most of the US gets except in the Rockies.
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-The Houses of Healing, TLOTR
Far beneath the bitter snows…”
June seriously, I quit
OP: here's a photo I took with a 35mm using a polarized filter
Facebook: F the tangerine tyrant
X: let's go Brandon!
TruthSocial: tariffs are tax cuts
IG: here's how to eat the rich
Don’t you dare, fools!
…I’m gonna end up building a conservatory.
Tulips originated in Central Asia in the Steppes if I recall correctly.
We’ve certainly had them survive April snowfall in the Northeast.
It was something about a flower
That blossomed out to early
When a sunny day turned sour
Only for an hour
There's a blossom in the snow
The innocence is beautiful
But what a way to go
Frozen in the snow
Singing Spring is coming
Frozen in the snow
-David Wilcox
Just don’t plant peaches or apricots, they will break your heart.
The farmers with orchards here probably have a routine ready to go if a late spring storm is forecast, but the back yard growers? They get pretty flowers, though! 😉
Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer.
And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose
My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.
#poem Dylan Thomas
#art Bobbi Heyde
LOVE and PEACE to everyone.
can they survive this?
Snow iris, glory-of-the-snow, snowdrops, hyacinth... They are all troopers.
(On the plus side, I might now have a spot in the yard with microclimate that might work for ocotillo)
*Pokes whoever's on the floor*
'stop being so dramatic.'
Far beneath the bitter snows
Lies the seed that with the sun's love
In the spring becomes the rose.........
(It even rhymes)
*the one exception was amazing, it bloomed for weeks!
Perhaps the flower thought its impetuous beauty would warm the snow's heart toward it. Perhaps it did.