>>> Flowers! You brat!
Gosh, Wanda, the daffodils are finished blooming here except for a few latest-blooming varieties. Some early blooming azaleas are starting to bloom, the redbud trees are at their peak, the dogwood buds are swelling. The fruit trees are about peak too - there's a pretty plum tree blooming outside my foalmobile window, away from the barn view. I think I must have tossed a peach pit into the azalea bed around the goldfish pond a few years ago - there's a young peach tree that's sprouted, and it's blooming for the first time this year. Those particular flowers are grape hyacinths. I guess my grandmother planted them many years ago, or maybe the folks who lived on this farm before my family - my grandpa bought the farm with pre-Civil War era house in 1900. (He moved to this farm from about 4-5 miles away - my family came to this county in the 1780's - from eastern NC.) Anyway, the grape hyacinths are rampant on this farm - I can only image that many plows have uprooted and spread and re-spread the initial bulbs, scattering them over 20-25-ish acres where crops have been grown. They aren't so widespread in the areas that have always been pasture - "always" meaning as long as I can remember. Karen Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
