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| Grape hyacinths come in all kinds of small sizes, color variations. They hold their blooms a long time and seem to come up forever, no matter how they are ignored. |
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| If a mouse is courting a mousess, a grape hyacinth bunch would be like a dozen roses. |
Daffodils came up today, shaking off the gloom of two mild sleet storms (enough to close the city each time). Earlier the nascent blooms were sleet coated. Color under the protective outer petals showed they were ready to open up. And they did. It looks like 50 or more of the earlier planted daffodils will bloom, then the very large planting of daffodils will follow at odd times.
Bulbs bloom earlier for two reasons. One is from being pushed higher from frost heaving them upward. Another cause, I imagine, is the greater abundance of energy from a year or years of gathering food for the bulb.
I cut a large bunch for the altar on Sunday morning, and that went to graves of Ranger Bob's mother and step-father today.
We included a lot of grape hyacinths, planted a layer above the various daffodils, last year. They have lasting and intense blooms on short stems.
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| California Dreamin' (about lower taxes). |
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| Caladiums have many variations in their colors. They take forever to come up but keep their showy style for a long time. |
