SHI BLOGS TOO

Spring is here.

It looks like Spring has finally come to stay in this mountain area. For awhile there winter just kept coming back with scattered snow and freezing temperatures at night. We are getting much warmer weather now and it is hanging around longer. The sun sets at around 8:30 every evening giving us more time to enjoy the daylight hours.

Nothing is in bloom here at home except for our wild cherry tree, however. Everything else is just budding. It looks like it will be May before the rhoderdendrons and azelea's are in bloom. That goes for everything else too! Our big snowfall that hung around for over two months has just stunted so many of our plants. The heather that we planted last fall did not do so well underneath that prolonged blanket of snow. It had turned brown before we left for our vacation. I see now, that it is slowly coming back with some green around the edges. I'm hoping it will all survive such a harsh winter.

My daughter has rhodies in full bloom already. Her azeleas are blooming, also. I am seeing the resulting differences in our planting regions according to our weather patterns. I'm hoping this might mean that my blooms will stick around longer through the end of Spring and early Summer months.

I can't rave enough about our green grass though. It is really green and lush. Ron was able to get the mowing done a couple of days ago.

At long last, it looks much like a park setting again around here.

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