I didn't keep close track of online weather maps this week, but I'm thinking most of the Midwest saw spring storms on Wednesday. High temperatures here made for instability in the weather when the winds finally blew in the rain. Tornadoes were sighted all around the Indianapolis area, and south of us, but on our little spot on the map we woke up yesterday morning to a freshly washed landscape and hardly any tree debris on the ground.
Bradford Pear blossoms
While the forecast predicts a welcomed cool down though most of next week, it is undeniably spring here. White-blossomed Bradford Pear (which is, I'm sad to say, an invasive at this point) now dot the landscape along the highways. Sprinkled amongst them are redbud trees, and all kinds of other trees just beginning to leaf out.
Everything here is growing fast! Sedum, daylilies, irises, clematis, daffodils, forsythia, garlic, onions...
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Sedum, last week🠝 and today🠟
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Daylilies a week ago🠝 and today🠟
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Iris growth a week ago🠝
Irises today🠟
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This Clematis will soon be looking gorgeous.
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Forsythia's bloom is about finished, though.
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As are the daffodils, I suspect.
Garlic planted in the fall is looking good!
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And walking onions planted from the
bulbils of last year's onions are thriving.
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And it looks like we'll have peaches again this year!
Once this rain is over (early next week) I plan to uncover the strawberry plants and take stock of that situation. I am eager to see if my thinning them out last autumn will have an impact on their production and strawberry size in a couple of months.
I'm not quite ready to throw myself into spring's outdoor work, but hopefully that's just inertia tugging at me to be lazy. I still have time to think about it. With all the rain we've had, it will take a while for the soil to dry enough to work it, anyway.
Meanwhile, with more consistently warmer temps, I've set myself up again in the sunroom to stitch on my never-ending cross stitch sampler. It's a great front-row seat for the annual spring show accompanied by birdsong.
Such beauty in spring. We are all a bloom here also. Lots of flowers and trees bursting woth fragrance and beauty.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing the pictures Becki!
ReplyDeleteEven here, where the temperature still seems to be in one mode, the trees and flowers suggest another.
Such beautiful spring flowers and trees, and what a lovely view from your window while you work! Nothing better than springtime after a long cold winter. Living here in Florida we don't have such dramatic changes, but we are very thankful for the spring and wish it could stay longer and not get so hot! And we definitely need the rain right now. Thank you for sharing the beauty from where you are! Please stay safe in all those spring storms. There were really some very very bad ones this past week.
ReplyDeleteI have mixed feelings about spring for a number of reasons that would take a therapist to work out! But I do enjoy the blossoms and blooms. The founders of the suburb where I live, in the late sixties decided the Bradford Pear should our city's signature tree. BIG mistake and you hit the nail on the head: invasive! They are weak-trunked and require regular pruning to keep any kind of shape. In most public areas they have been removed but we poor schmucks who have 40-ish year old homes still have them in our yards. I am down to two, and just don't want to go to the expense of having them cut down.
ReplyDeleteWonderful to see the time lapse photos. Isn't it amazing how fast things grow! We're still dealing with old man winter it seems and spring is having a struggle to drive him away. I hate winter but am wondering about what might come our way in terms of summer storms. We've had some doozies over the past couple years (and they keep insisting climate change isn't a 'thing'...yeah, right).
ReplyDeleteYour spring photos are pretty, my friend. We are getting rain, so I expect things to turn green soon. Have a cozy Sunday,!
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