Welcome to another crazy week on the flower farm. Every day is something new and different, and exciting. The most exciting is that spring is actually happening. The witch hazels are done blooming, making way for the forsythia and the magnolias. The hellebores are are blooming their socks off and the narcissus buds are swelling with promise.
On Monday I got all of the perennial seedlings planted out into the garden, perfect weather for transplanting. Mostly overcast with no wind to speak of and the nights were above freezing. The peonies have been cleaned up and fed, and half of the irrigation has been laid out in the cutting garden. Even bigger news is that the last crate of forced tulips has been harvested so now we are dependent on the ground tulips.
So you all know that I have been a bit worried that there will be a lull in the tulip production but hurrah! White Emperor will be be first one on deck. It will still be a week before harvest, but no delay. Good news all around I would say.
I am having a bit of a problem in the greenhouse. As I was rounding the corner yesterday I noticed a little wren with bits in its bill sitting on the ledge going into the greenhouse. My fears are correct. She is building a nest on the ledge of the greenhouse. Argh. Not a great place because if it gets cold, I have to shut the doors, her entrance, and I can’t keep the doors shut to keep her out because it will become far too hot in there for the crops. Hopefully she will become discouraged with all of my activity and find somewhere else safer to build her nest.
I am not going to remove her nest because if this is where she wants to be she will just build another one. Sigh. If she continues I will chronicle it for all to see.
I did create a #windowframethursday on Friday last week but never got around to posting it. It was one of those days, so you all get to see it now, with the same arrangement four days later when the tulips have opened up a bit.
I hope everyone has a beautiful spring week coming, and I will be back to regale you with more next week.
Allie, I dream of flowers, do you?