Spring Colors

Getting Vibrant Again

Spring is finally here or should I say summer is finally here. The temperature was over 90°F for a couple of days which broke the record. I’m not complaining after months of snow and freezing temperature. The plants in our garden are not complaining either. They’re pushing out shoots and buds all over the garden. Dragging on as winter did, spring is still giving us a very promising new life especially after the recent rain.

After we successfully fended off the deer for the last two years, and relocated the last rabbit last year, we decided to grow tulips in the garden again. I’ve been planting tulip bulbs I rescued for years but only a few of them survive the animal raiding parties. But as I didn’t spend a penny on them, it didn’t feel very wasteful. Last autumn, I picked tulip bulbs from the catalogs for the first time and they’re looking good so far. Hopefully these beautiful flowers will come back up next spring.

Mixed color tulips accompany our ‘Pollinator Habitat’ sign. By early summer this area will be filled with variety of flowers especially the ones that have plenty of pollen and nectar

We cannot be certified a ‘Wildlife Habitat’ since we’ve fenced off most of the four-legged locals around here: deer, rabbit, woodchuck, raccoon, skunk, fox and coyote. We would’ve welcomed fox and coyote but once the deer net went up, that was it. Access to the garden is limited to birds, insects and small rodents. Any gardeners who have a problem with deer, I would recommend a deer net. It’s the only thing that works. I no longer have to spray a mixture of garlic and rotten eggs in the garden or use other methods only to find that they aren’t effective. The fact is there aren’t any plants that the deer will not eat.

Anyway, we have colors and the scent of perfume in our garden again after a long wait.