My garden started waking up at the beginning of April and the first thing that I planted 2 years ago to come to life was my Orange Monarch Crocuses.

They are not as showy as my hundreds of inherited Purple Snow Crocuses which started in February and bloomed for 2 months, but I love them because I planted them and feeds my gardening sense of accomplishment.

Next to bloom on April 12th were my Lungwort which I got from my Dad when I first moved here 2 years ago and they are starting to spread out a bit and a lovely sign of spring.

Today is April 17th and my White Rock Cress (Snowcap) just made an appearance. I also noticed this morning that there is a small patch of Rainbow Rock Cress that I planted from seed last year that didn’t come up. I’ve had that happen before where something comes up the second year. This is part of why I am gentle with the garden and weeding instead of digging the whole thing up clean and starting fresh I let it ebb and flow a bit and see what I’ve got.

So many blooms to come. Likely all my Narcissus next. That is for outside the fence. Which is a big part of my garden story.

Our little rural area is just full of deer and snowshoe hare who are both ferocious eaters of pretty posies. But I have a half acre fenced in for my Border Collies, Macy & Milo, so I can plant pretty things like Tulips and Day Lilies inside the fence and they do just fine. I’d like to get some chickens and goats one day but truthfully this is what is standing in the way of that.

Anyway, there are inside the fence plants, and outside the fence plants. And Narcissus are lovely deer resistant bulbs so I have a few different varieties of those and will add more over time. Will be nice to see the new ones I planted last fall come up.

I’m going to have to update this blog on the fly as things in the garden come to live, but will just get the blog up for now and add things join the world.

Happy Spring 2024,

Angela