ITS ONLY NINE DEGREES ABOVE FREEZING! It’s snowing in Vermont! I got home from Mother’s Day at the nursery just now, soaking wet from showing people stuff outside that would be great Mother’s Day gifts- lilacs, blueberry bushes, jap maples, weeping cherries, and the like. It’s damn cold out there- I can see my breath with each exhale. Im a damn good fire starter- three minutes and wet wood turns to fire with a little help from cardboard and empty pistachio shells. My wood stove worked as easily as I did to create warmth in my cozy salt box on a brutally cold mid-May Sunday. Hope nobody wants to buy this particular tree. It would be extremely expensive to move. Plus, it’s like family. I’ve had it about 20 years. I’ve often fantasized about taking it home. I would need to rent a huge front end loader with forks. This tree caught my eye last night also just before I hopped into my truck to go home and mow the lawn-again. Zelkovas ROCK! Donald Wyman crabapple smiling at the camera yesterday as I walked to the gate to close it for the day. I saw my first and only honey bee on this tree earlier in the week. It’s legs were completely covered in pollen- such a struggle for that poor little bee to fly with such heavy luggage. You ever thought YOUR life was hard? Observe the insect world for a while and you’ll consider yourself lucky to be human. They struggle! Appalachian red redbud flowers emerging with blue cloudless sky yesterday. Redbud trees ROCK. This tree lifts spirits high with every season!
Salvia and gallardia keeping each other company yesterday in the setting sun. Yup- the sun paid us a visit. It still exists! Redbud tree in full splendor despite the lack of sunlight. Briotti horse chestnut tree with its annually spectacular plumage. We sell the very best sod money can buy. Yankee stadium turf, from the same grower the yanks get for their world class stadium. If it’s good enough for them, it’s good enough for me! Last year’s kwanzan cherry trees profuse blossoms delight with double pink frilly flowers. Occasional petals drift away from the tree, landing like snow on the sod nearby. Lupine flowers reaching the peak of their flowering this year- the most spectacular show I’ve ever seen on this species.
...or perhaps euphorbia ‘bonfire’ misted over in the morning dew, leaves folded slightly from the weight. This blazingly hot lone 30+ year old tulip offers hope also, and I feel that if this tulip can survive all these years through tumultuous times, so can we. It’s just so hard, though, for those of us who know the difference between right and so wrong. Brand new patented clematis on its way to someone’s home after they fell in love with this intriguing hybrid. Hard to capture the beauty and majesty of this proud lupine. Red buckeye is almost done unfurling it’s foliage and about to flower. This group was brought in last spring, and I’m really really surprised they haven’t hitched a ride to someone’s house by now. Incredible plant. Japanese maple buds clamshelling open yesterday. The longer one observes beauty in nature, the less one admires the obviously showy (forsythia, etc), favoring the more hard to see beauty of textures, patterns, and evolution. I always think when I see this that Japanese maples regurgitate their foliage in the spring through the protective bud sheaths like a clam shell opening.
Peetee’s body language says it all: ”Daddy, let’s go home!” Sounds strange but I agreed with her. Goodbye nursery ‘till Thursday- truck coming in with clematis, hydrangea and the like. Hope it’s a nicer day (it doesn’t look like it). Peetee wants to stay home today so she can be warm. Too bad, get up! Privacy trees looking good for deer-free neighborhoods. Deer-proof Norway spruce for privacy in deer country. Weeping Katsura tree is possibly zee best looking tree on our property yesterday with a gentle breeze waving the branches slightly all day long. Redbud flowers returning for yet another display trying to brighten up the day for cloud-weary passers-by.
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