Thank You, my dearest blog followers!!!! It worked! Mother Nature heard me and each of you and granted me here in The Netherlands some wonderful sunshine on this first Sunday of April.
To all my Minnesota readers who just received more snow and to any of my readers that were in the destructive path of the most recent tornados, I will keep asking Mother Nature to stop this extreme crazy!
Until that happens maybe a few pictures of our garden will help ease the pain for your bad weather.
When I wrote my blog on Friday it was buckets rain falling from the sky! I went to the garden anyway to lift the black clouds of my soul. As I entered the garden I could hear laughter in the rain! There was an entire level 6 (9-12 year olds) planting this garden. It lifted the black clouds as the rain continued to fall. “Thanks Mother Nature!”Alfalfa with a garlic that are doing just fine in the rain and cold.Can anyone ID this plant? New sprout coming up in a fellow community gardeners plot.Even with the sun out today the wind was cold and biting off the North Sea. Tonight they are calling for a freeze. This cotton cloth cover will hopefully protect my young carrot seeds that are peeking through the soil of the straw bale.NOT WEEDS! This is rye grain that I planted last fall. You can tell that the plants closer to the bales are getting more heat and protection. I will most likely get a staggered harvest. That is perfect for my needs.Bird control in my oat field.These young plants all have glass covers for tonights freeze, the homemade wind screen needed to be on the other side of the bale today. “🙄🙄 Oh well, that is gardening”
What is growing or not growing where you live? Lets us know in our comment section.
I can do that!!!! Flowers? Tree buds? Tell me what you want to see.😊 We have seen kids riding bikes with shorts in but that gets into privacy issues here so can’t really share those.😂
NYC in Spring. Busy with tourist and Cherry blossoms. I always love how they look like pink snowflakes falling towards the end of the bloom. Very memorable when vacationing! Thanks LA!
When I left home over two weeks ago, there was still snow. Now I’m in Texas – and it is HOT! Summer! The magnolias are blooming, and wildflowers coat the roadsides with red/pink/white/oranges/yellows and blue to blue-violet. Thank you First Lady LadyBird Johnson for encouraging this!
Well. I had to Google it, and found lots of conflicting evidence! There are Bluebells (a gentian relative) and Blue Bonnets (related to lupines). Given the month, I think what I’ve been seeing is Blue Bonnets; Bluebells bloom later. And I had thought they looked more like lupines, at least from a distance; I didn’t have a place to easily stop. But I’m only half through my time in Texas, and I’ll be driving directly through the area best known for Blue Bonnets as I head north and east again.
I needed to see this, this lifting of the black cloud from your soul, the revealing of new growth, the movement toward spring. Thank you, dear Paula. Tulips are emerging along the foundation of my house.
Can’t help you on the planty – waaaaay out of my expertise. Great garden you having going there. We just made it back and the yard/landscape took our absence as permission to get unruly. I was texting Brad a lot while we were gone as there were terrible storms coming through. Luckily the worst of it missed us, but a tornado did rip through a small town just outside my hometown – scary stuff. Thanks for getting our hopes up for Spring.
These storms this Spring are crazy! Northern MN has had some crazy snowfalls then 80’s where it all melts at once and then back to more snow! Oh BTW great experience for the European Hubby on our relaxing American vacation (haha right…!)
Anyway, woodpeckers are busy here as we counted 4 types just while enjoying some Sun between Snowstorms.🙄😳
The Cedar Journal 
More evidence of Spring!
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I can do that!!!! Flowers? Tree buds? Tell me what you want to see.😊 We have seen kids riding bikes with shorts in but that gets into privacy issues here so can’t really share those.😂
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Almost all of the above. It’s great that temps don’t fall below freezing any longer. Our bulbs are above ground now, a week or so earlier than normal.
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The mystery plant in your neighbours plot looks like rhubarb which makes lovely pies with custard!
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Magnolias, pachysandra, cherry blossoms…lots of color
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NYC in Spring. Busy with tourist and Cherry blossoms. I always love how they look like pink snowflakes falling towards the end of the bloom. Very memorable when vacationing! Thanks LA!
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What a lovely garden! The daffodils are bout done here, but the tulips are still going strong. So are the blossoms on the pear trees, etc.
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Wow. I won’t have tulips blooming until next week. Trees here have gone crazy.
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When I left home over two weeks ago, there was still snow. Now I’m in Texas – and it is HOT! Summer! The magnolias are blooming, and wildflowers coat the roadsides with red/pink/white/oranges/yellows and blue to blue-violet. Thank you First Lady LadyBird Johnson for encouraging this!
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Nice. Any blue bells?
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Well. I had to Google it, and found lots of conflicting evidence! There are Bluebells (a gentian relative) and Blue Bonnets (related to lupines). Given the month, I think what I’ve been seeing is Blue Bonnets; Bluebells bloom later. And I had thought they looked more like lupines, at least from a distance; I didn’t have a place to easily stop. But I’m only half through my time in Texas, and I’ll be driving directly through the area best known for Blue Bonnets as I head north and east again.
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There is a place in Eastern Texas where the use to grow that the blue was so intense and vast it hurt my eyes.
Safe travels!
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I needed to see this, this lifting of the black cloud from your soul, the revealing of new growth, the movement toward spring. Thank you, dear Paula. Tulips are emerging along the foundation of my house.
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Are still the gifted ones?😊🌷🌷🌷
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Can’t help you on the planty – waaaaay out of my expertise. Great garden you having going there. We just made it back and the yard/landscape took our absence as permission to get unruly. I was texting Brad a lot while we were gone as there were terrible storms coming through. Luckily the worst of it missed us, but a tornado did rip through a small town just outside my hometown – scary stuff. Thanks for getting our hopes up for Spring.
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These storms this Spring are crazy! Northern MN has had some crazy snowfalls then 80’s where it all melts at once and then back to more snow! Oh BTW great experience for the European Hubby on our relaxing American vacation (haha right…!)
Anyway, woodpeckers are busy here as we counted 4 types just while enjoying some Sun between Snowstorms.🙄😳
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Hello. You have an amazing garden. Enjoy gardening and have a great day.
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Thanks!
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