An irreverent take on gardening in the Midwest by a frequently disgruntled gardener.

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Spring Comes in March

We had a gorgeous, spring-like day where everyone was out and about, absorbing the sun...and it's only March 11.  In the garden I've got loads of blooming snowdrops, and even a few crocuses.



My husband says it's just an anomalous year, and not necessarily a sign of apocalyptic climate change (not that he's a climate-change denier, just that small individual events don't mean that much in the grand global scheme of things), so I'm going to keep close track of dates when things happen over the next few years and see if there are any useful patterns.  I did check a few gardening fora and it doesn't seem to be out of the question for crocuses to appear in mid March.  I still find it disturbing though that we never had sustained snow cover this year, and temperatures are predicted to be in the high 70s next week.  More importantly, lack of snowpack is a huge problem for western water supplies year round.

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