Abundant Sunshine

All is forgiven from yesterday!  A glorious warm spring day today, after the rain of yesterday.  Sunny all day, in the 50s, but out in the sunshine it had to be in the 60s.

The heath is in bloom.

I worked in the yard and got too warm!

I even sat on the patio in the sunshine late in the afternoon.  Just lovely.

A little iris reticulata has appeared among the still blooming snowdrops by the front walk.

Tasks accomplished today:
Cleaned up all of Northern Exposure.  Cut back the amsonias, cleaned up the foliage from the tiarellas, got it all neat.

Cut back butterfly bush, Montauk daisies and cayopteris in Meadow's Edge.  Cleaned up and cut back around the patio.

Got short metal stakes and tied up the sourwood to re-straighten it.  Re-did the stake and ties on the top branch of the black gum in back, (trying to force it to become the leader.)

Much more clean up to do.  I haven't even cut back the grasses yet along the West Walk, or touched the Birch Garden, but it's only mid March.  There is time.

Zinnia seeds indoors sprouted after three days! 

I got the potting bench organized and put tools and stuff back out there where I can get to it, and hooked up a hose and turned on the water.

A concern: the big green plastic potting bin was coated inside with a smelly oily substance.  I think the Vine-X, which was tipped over, has spilled into it.  I left it out in the sun to dry out, I certainly don't want to rinse it out and get herbicide all over everything.