Ah…spring in Calgary! I have no idea what coat I should wear when I go outside – in a five minute walk, it might pour rain or pelt icy snow or be so pleasantly warm you wonder why you put the coat on in the first place. I love this crazy season!
The garden was partly buried in snow earlier this week and is now gloriously muddy, so I’m admiring from afar the progress of my slowly emerging perennials (all that fresh green!) and the blooms of tiny crocuses, squill, chionodoxa, snowdrops, and muscari. Isn’t it amazing that the soil is still so cold and yet all this fantastic STUFF is going on? Even if you’ve been gardening in northern climes for many years, sometimes you just have to pause a moment to take in the absolute wonder of it. And how here, in the face of such marvels, I can’t even choose suitable outerwear. 😉
In lieu of photos of spring-flowering bulbs, I want to show off another rose I found while touring Patterson Garden Arboretum in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan last July. I love this photo because it’s a teaser…I still have yet to see the open flowers of Rosa ‘Hazeldean’. (If you’re curious, here’s a link to some images and a write-up of the breeding history of this hardy yellow beauty).
Have a wonderful weekend…and may you always have the right coat for the weather! 🙂
Flowery Prose. 