What's Bloomin' In The Snow

You've heard the old saying about March: In like a lion, out like a lamb.

Ha. This year, it's the reverse: the beginning of March was beautiful, but yesterday it snowed...and today it's cloudy and windy. Oh, spring, you fickle fiend. There are still plants blooming, though, even through the snow. Bless them.

My apricot trees "popped":

My neighbor gave me these lovely violets, that just smell heavenly:

Using a milk carton for transplanting small plants is just genius, let me tell you. And after they were planted, they still looked (and smelled) lovely:

I am especially excited about these because they act like a ground cover. With a yard as large as mine, I'm always looking for ground covers that will work!

And I am thoroughly disgusted with my forsythia, which has only four flowers to show for itself:

While the neighbors' forsythias all look pretty much like this:

Hm. Maybe I'm not watering it enough - or maybe it needs another week or two to impress me. At any rate, my daffodils also started to come out. They are a little weighed down by snow:

This time of year, you have to be ready for anything. Have a great week!