After a Spring Shower
First, the tulips and daffodils bloomed and I battled weeds in early spring. Now my perennials are doing what I feared they would not. Gaining ground with amazing growth, they are taking over any bare soil and filling in beyond my expectations. I always stick that new perennial a little too close to its more established neighbor or fill in with a couple annuals unnecessarily.
And the blossoms. Could there be a lovelier combination than poppies and delphiniums? Delphiniums are one of my favorites, but have not come easily to me. Sadly, my only blue delphinium decided its residence of two years was no longer a worthy abode. Without so much as a sign, it did not return this spring. I now have all purple with white centers, which are lovely, but don’t do for me what the blue does. But that is not the only tale of woe in my neighborhood. A friend of mine’s sweet little lamb stripped her delphiniums this spring, before the first bud opened. This might just change my view of those sweet little lamb faces forever.
None the less buds are swelling in every direction and there is always something more and different to look forward to.
