daffodils and narcissus

One thing I love about spring is how the front gardens come to life. We go from brown and some green as the grass begins to grow again and the flowers begin to show their pretty heads. And the phlox are beginning to open.

between winter and spring

Snow shovels are still out in case of a last snowfall, but the window box is hanging on the outside wall now, waiting for its spring dash of annuals that I still have to order.

phlox

The phlox on the hill are just beginning to open here. As I post now, they are fully in bloom.

Seeds in a couple of my winter sowing jugs are germinating and growing. Soon, but not yet, it will be time to lift the tops and let them grow bigger. This was my first time setting up seeds this way in the dead of winter and I look forward to seeing how the plants do once I can open them up and transplant.

uva ursi bearberry

My bearberry has little pink flowers too. There’s more colour in my garden every day over these last three weeks.

tulips

And many tulips are abloom now too.

more tulips

Many of these tulips were a gift. It was exciting to see the pink-fringes on the white and  the orange by its side. I had no idea what colour they would be when I planted them last fall.

One of the winter sowing jugs sits by the white bleeding heart plant that’s growing beside it. Won’t be long until it flowers too.

Each day that the weather is fair, I go out to see what’s newly in bloom and each day I look forward, one day closer, to planting my raised garden beds for veggies. The boxes await and so do the bags of manure and soil that are still to go into them. That is news for another day.