Thursday, March 22, 2012

Summer in March

The record temperatures and sunny days just go on and on.  This is March, for heaven's sake.  It's been in the 80s, too hot to do much outside in the afternoons.  The first few warm days were odd and novel feeling, but now it just feels like summer is here to stay.

Windows are open, even at night.  Jim put all the screens up.  He's been digging out the strip in front of the berm where I'll move the yellowroot shrubs to get them further away from the spruces.  It's hot work!
Curves need some softening, still a lot to do.

Everything is popping out.
Forsythia is blooming, all over town.

Deutzia has leafed out and will bloom soon.


Pieris is blooming.

And look who popped out!  The new little star magnolia.