We have had the most spectacular spring ever here in North Idaho. I’ve never seen so many, so profuse, and so colorful blooms and blossoms! I was talking to a tree guy a couple days ago and he observed the same thing. We’ve got an ancient cherry tree that must be 50 feet tall and it’s covered in blossoms from top to bottom. The forsythias all popped this week. Our Bleeding Hearts all popped. The peonies are growing like crazy and we got the hoops on them yesterday. I’ve been limbing a stand of pines to tidy them up. We got pre-emergent herbicide in the lawn six weeks ago and not a dandelion to be seen in the lawn (so many lawns in town are covered in them).We mowed for the first time last week. My efforts to rid the lawn of Poa annua seem to have worked (a delightfully named herbicide “Poa Constrictor”).
I’m considering putting in some tomatoes this year, but it’s tough with all the deer here. I’d have to put up a good barrier to keep them out. It is simpler to buy good garden tomatoes at the farmers’s market in town which starts in a few weeks.
We can still see snow on the surrounding mountains, so it’s really pretty with the lush spring colors, blossoms everywhere, te fresh foliage, the pine forests, the deep blue Western sky, and the snow covered mountains. Lots of fishermen out on the lake in the early mornings, too.
Sounds beautiful out there!
We’re way ahead of schedule with the trees leafing out here in NH, too.
For a change.
And I’m loving it.
What a colorful description! Sounds positively edenic!
Heh, my big problem is keeping out the squirrels! I finally put out traps and was able to trap several late last summer, but it was a bother. I wish I could figure out how to get our two cats to hang around the garden areas, without drawing other “problems”. They are fenced off, but that’s no deterrent to squirrels, of course.