Grass! Flowers! Beeeeeees!!! *drooling* Oh, I can't wait for spring to arrive here. By the rate this snow is melting we'll see our garden in October some time.
Forsythia and Rhodies in bloom....Good grief, miss-- what an amazing display, and as you said, unseasonable. I was looking the other day in the forsythia bush belonging to my garden neighbour, Willem--and I didn't see anything looking like a flower bud. Dear me. DAISY--I was reading about all that snow on top of your irises (irides?). I recalled when I was working in a place called Valdez Alaska where they often got 30-40 feet of snow a winter, They had to work madly to heep the few city streets clean with snow blowers. the result was that the piled-up snow got to be 14-16 feet tall, making getting about in the village like negociating a rat maze. Some found it claustraphobic. I had a snow mobile that I rode to work, but the real fun was to get up on top of those "walls of snow" with my snow machine and ride around. I could look out over thew whole town. The thing was, that you couldn't slow or stop otherwise you were stuck. My girlfriend got off her snow mobile once and immediately sank to her armpits. There were tall bushes and treesz under that snow, you see. it tookabout an hour and a half to het her and her machine out. Wait a minute...that was MY machine she was on! hahaha. I had to lie flat on my tummy with arms and legs spread eagled out and then inch my out to her from the periphery. My collegue had a long rope that he pulled with his snow mobile from down below. What a drama! It was quite an adventure.
It has been such a bizarre winter. For East TN it has been extremely cold & more snow & rain than the average. I am amazed you are so far ahead and your plants look beautiful, the rhodendrum is gorgeous. Gives the rest of us hope. We had a magnificent fall, so I guess this winter is the payback.
