TheSeedObsesser
Deeply Rooted
I've been hearing a lone Wood Thrush singing it's spring song for the past few days. Nobody's calling back, it's pretty unusual.
Spring is on the way! I now have proof!
Despite the continued cold. Despite the continued snow. Despite my forgetting to add water. Somehow the plants know. They know it is time to start growing.
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Here wintering in the sun room, are my fig starts, a pot of freesia and some tuberoses that just seemed to know it was time and started to grow.
Black pot at bottom left; is that a fig?? It kind of looks like one!
Spring in 1980 was a difficult time in the garden, downwind from Mount St. Helens. Downhill would have been worse.
Disney was prescient . . .
Steve
Wow Steve! I hope you do not have any health issues related to those times. We have a lot of people who love to complain about government assistance. I wonder how they feel about a story like yours.A letup to survive is all most people need in bad times. What did the ash do to the growing conditions down the road? I have seen the very frightening footage of the eruption that you lived through.It was the end of my gardening that year. Breathing was more important.
I have a friend from the Philippines. Places there had a very difficult time the last few years. I asked him about what folks do about the floods and then the hurricane. He said, they leave. I should have been so lucky. Paid close attention to what was happening and gone somewhere else for awhile.
That while would then have turned into several months. It was not a pleasure being here in the summer of 1981. We really appreciated every rain and snow storm for a few years. You would still find the ash blowing several years later but it was mostly that summer of 1980.
Indoors, we stayed indoors as much as possible. You'd think that would work out fine for a greenhouse worker but all that ash had to come off the glass. Then, the greenhouses had to be opened up because of whatever sunlight was coming through. We were cooking, in our almost-clean glass houses. The ash just continued to come in.
I had a job and a new home. The greenhouse company got a check from the guvmint for losses. Good thing but we were right at rose bush "cut-back" since Mother's Day had already passed. Memorial Day counted for nothing. We were good to go by Thanksgiving but getting there was miserable.
Steve
We got Tulips and daffodils poking out... I was so excited just to see that.
Then Driving my daughter to school yesterday I saw someone with a whole CLUMP of completely blooming daffodils at the end of the driveway. OMG, so lucky!!!