The rule in Colorado – never before Mother’s Day.  April showers brings May SNOW (at least in Colorado).

Easter Bunny RIP ✞

Couple days in the 70’s, late-calendar Easter holiday & a non-travel HOME weekend.  Neighbors are gonna comment.  Spring planting on the down low.  Bulbs yes, flowering plants no.  Don’t care.  It’s MY stoop, MY front porch to Spring up.  Global warming means seasons are shorter, no more snow at 5500ft – just the high mountains thru mid-June.  Right?  And heck, it’s EARTH Day.  Gotta/hafta/must PLANT.

Uprooted the holly bush, replaced with wild roses.  Not a Colorado variety – again, counting on the big global BAKE to keep ’em alive (didn’t save the holly after 5 years).  Absolutely NO idea what I purchased for my barrel planters – big, GREEN, full of blooms, screamed ‘SPRING’.  Check, done.  Come on board.

I always plant Snapdragons.  BORING.  Provide some colour, grow in our arid climate.  Not crazy vibrant    but survive our summer temperature swing, low 40’s to upper 90’s.  No humidity, nothing to dial in the barometer.  Notta lotta clouds either, mountain SUNSHINE 300 days a year 🌞

Not gonna waste more words & pretend I’m a horticulturalist.  Just celebrating the season.  It’s really really GOOD to watch things grow.  Slow down each morning, 10-minute water ritual before the work day start.

Triggers something in the brain.  Hope.  New ideas.  Calm, steady.  Peace, nurture.

Hopefully, my newest plant babies will survive the late season white.

Happy Earth Day! 🌎

Dig.  Plant.  Watch something GROW!

May SNOW 2019