Are you tired of snowdrops yet? I have seen so many blooming daffodils in friends' yards but mine are all still in the bud stage. Snowdrops never disappoint and keep on blooming until the other spring bulbs start performing. I started these clumps in the fall and they are loving this woodland setting. Have a great Wednesday evening. xo
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My first msg failed, but I won’t try to remember exactly what I said. Anyhow, I love your little snowdrops. Don’t think I ever see them down here. The freeze this past weekend ruined my azaleas which are in bloom and many others around town. They really look pathetic. Mother Nature must be slapping our hand for some faux pas. Spring May look quite down-trodden this year.
Monday quite by chance I discovered a little Eastern Phoebe laying in the grass in front of one of my LR windows. It had already gone to birdie heaven. I couldn’t determine what had happened to it other than maybe it couldn’t stand the cold. Don’t think he had been laying there long, but I took it down in the woods and buried it under a huge pile of leaves that I thought no other birds or critters would bother. It may have been the little Phoebe that I have watched for the past 2-3 years. It was a loner and always came to my suet feeder by itself.
I don't think I shall ever tire of snowdrops. They're one of my favourite flowers and I look forward to seeing them every year. Sadly, they are now finished for 2023 in my garden but I am enjoying the little blue windflowers which are popping up everywhere, and the mini daffs which are standing up to the strong winds much better than their full height sisters. I hope the weather is treating you kindly, Rosemary.
A neighbor, house ca. 1890, has millions of snow drops this year. Walking past daily, now I STOP, they are intoxicating visually.
Why so many from past years? She had cleared a brushy property line planting with a new fence. No more shade?
Love this view of your home.
XOT
I will never grow tired of snowdrops! This is a great angle of your cottage, too.
Tara, snowdrops will lie dormant in the soil for a long time before re-appearing and flowering once again. Perhaps the soil disturbance when your neighbour cleared the land was the trigger to set them off again.
JudyMac -- Judy, So sorry to hear about your azaleas getting zapped by your spring freeze. And it's so sad to hear about your little Phoebe. That was so nice of you to bury him. Tara Dillard lives in or near Atlanta and her neighbor has millions of snowdrops according to her comment in this post. I think you have them in Georgia but so many other things are blooming you might have missed them. Up here in the Northeast, they are prized because they are first to bloom in February when Spring is months away and they keep blooming until the daffodil time and longer. March is such a fickle month weatherwise and this year it has had the worst weather of the season at my house. Pretty soon winter will be a faint memory.
xo, Rosemary
Thank you Tasha T............Tara
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