What a Difference a Week Can Make
Mar 16th, 2009 by Cynthia
Isn’t it amazing what a difference a week can make in the garden? On the 7th of this month I posted a picture of my Rosa Rugosa with its leaf buds swelling. In case anyone missed it here is the picture again:
Exactly a week after posting the above picture I took this next picture:
It amazes me how almost overnight the garden can change and grow right before our very eyes.
Despite there being signs in the garden of Spring on her way I am having a hard time believing it as we awoke to about an inch of snow on the ground. (Can you hear me grumbling and moaning as you read this?) I am more than ready to put this past winter behind us!
I found this site to be interesting on Rosa Rugosas. At the end of the page it mentions using the young suckers in soup. I’ve never heard of this use before!
We had that snow yesterday. It’s hard to believe that the weather will know that spring is coming, although the plants seem to know.
Oh too bad you had snow. I love it in January, but in March it is awful.
I know! I cut my holly ferns down to the ground. Two weeks later they were two feet tall! We’ve had a lot of rain this past week. No telling what I’ll see in the garden next week after Mother Nature gave us so many showers!
Brenda
I’ve always been amazed at how bare the landscape is at the beginning of March compared with how it looks at the end. So much busy work going on right before our eyes.
Often it literally takes overnight to see changes, and if we had a time-lapse camera, hours. I surely hope this snow will be your last snow for the season…it’s time to get on with things now! March is more than half way over (can you believe that) so it’s almost on it’s way out…and hopefully, will go out like a Lamb!
Ugh, snow. We might get some more this weekend. I sure hope not. I’m ready for winter to be over too. Changes sure happen fast this time of year, don’t they?
Sometimes it feels like one could just stand and watch the garden change. Spring is such a great time.
This always pleases me too. Very nice article on the Rugosa. I would have a very hard time cutting mine. They get cut back pretty good every spring due to winter and I encourage them to grow as tall as they can.
I have a new Canadian Hardy rose to plant this spring it’s called Theresa Bugnet. It’s supposed to not have any winter die back, be very fragrant and is a lovely shade of pink.
I’ll be taking about it soon.
Karyn
Love your blog!
I enjoy viewing your post since the same exact thing is happening in my back yard, in Cupertino,C A.
Its just that we never have snow! But we are freezing in the first day of Spring