Thaw

On By wanderingcatyarns

We’ve had a nice little warm up this week. Yesterday it got up to 8 Celsius, so I took my lunch hour and enjoyed it with Lemmy in the catio.

It was wonderful to sit and soak up some warm sun. Despite the warmth, there’s still a lot of snow out there.

Still, I trudged through it to check on my pussywillows.

The pink ones are a touch more pink… but not as pink as they’ve been in previous years. There are however lots of them! The bush is just covered in catkins and they are so fluffy!!!!

The black pussywillow is always a little behind the pink one…

It’s just getting started.

And the grey one… well I let the grey one grow a little too much…

So all the catkins are out of reach! It will be getting a good pruning this spring.

Elsewhere…

I relocated my white double lilac last fall. It had been getting shaded out by the raspberries, and wasn’t growing well. I wasn’t sure how well it would survive the transition, but here it is sprouting up through the snow.

The rest of the gardens pretty much look like this…

But there was one bare patch beside the house and look…

Green sprouts!!!! Spring is coming…. eventually!

9 thoughts on “Thaw”

  2. jatshaw's avatar jatshaw

    Your pussy willows are so fun! We are also seeing signs of spring, but it’s been really windy here lately, so there’s lots of work waiting outside if it ever quits raining. Love that Lemmy!

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  4. Shirley Elliott's avatar Shirley Elliott

     Love your pussy willows! We are having a great reprieve from winter – 70 degrees, daffodils blooming and birds chirping. Such a change from last week’s frigid temperatures and snow.

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  5. Things are happening! I go out and look at my forsythia everyday. The buds make me so happy. I wasn’t sure if it would survive the winter but it looks like it did. Now I want to plant more of them.

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