It's spring, though we might not yet believe it based on temperature readings. But the gardens are growing - the tulips are stretching their pretty heads up to the sky and straining to reach the sunshine anyway they can. This is the first year that i see the weeping redbud flowering and i'm pretty impressed - it's very showy and pretty!
And then there was the battle of the maple saplings. My military advisors sought to give me advice on how best to eradicate them from my territory... mow them down, they cried, mow them down! But alas, they were resilient and hardy enemies and despite being mown down by the awful lawn mower blades, they shook off their newly shorn heads, marshalled their strength and put it all into growing like crazy in order to beat out the next round of death and destruction dealt by the old mower. But i had the last word in the conflict... armed with a weed-poker-outer tool and a bucket, i systematically made my way across the field of battle and slowly but surely rooted everyone of those little invaders out. I wouldn't say it was a total victory because there are small pockets of armed resistants but i will keep the ground forces mobilized and ready to wreak out more havoc upon their defiant heads... death to maple keys!
4 comments:
Looks like you did a good job "blind planting" your tulips, they seem to have come up in good places :)
Your tulips are so colourful! One day I will get around to planting those in my garden...so nice to see colour - especially on dreary days like today!
so General Mussche, that was quite the battle tale. It just seems so unfair, you as a giant against these defenceless little beings. Your lethal secret weapon The weed-poker-outer? Hmm very descriptive. mom
You make me laugh.
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