we’ve got traction!

No rain, but sunshine and warm temps, and we are finally on the move toward spring up here. Those of us with protected, south-facing slopes and walls that act like heat-sinks, are now experiencing the first of the spring blooms. I have a north sloping yard, so I am always last. But even I have tiny blue scilla (siberian squill) along the driveway now. A friend of mine has a two-story warehouse style building inthe city with a sunny south-facing garden, and her magnolia is always the first to blossom. And she always calls me first!

magnolia blossoms