First crocus opening
Is that a toad?
Do you get polinators on your balcony?
We’ll have cypripedium montanum in a couple of months -common name “lady slippers”. Very neat plants. Foliage is similar to yours.
Hi! This one is cypripedium macranthus, but there are more species starting to flower too… i don’t have cyp montanum…
White or Russian or Morus alba is bleeding. I’m looking for “vacated” rootstocks anywhere they can be found on my property:
IL 5b
Silver maples popping buds all over. Time to dormant spray while stuff is still dormant
So sorry.
Lo and behold, my apricots are at shuck split. Peaches not far behind. There have been a lot of bees!
Sandhill cranes showed up today.
We’ve been looking but haven’t seen any yet.
To be honest, I haven’t seen them either. I did hear them trumpeting in the marsh about a half mile away though
They do make a racket!
Temps up to 70 today, earliest buds are thinking about popping. Time to spray. But … no dormant oil! Dig thru shelf - ah! Neem! “Can be used as dormant oil.” OK …
At least I had enough copper for the nects.
I saw them overhead last week.
I got pears separating bud scales. I’m like 80 miles south of Chicago but on the opposite side of the state near the Mississippi River.
Pears are always late here. This year, it’s looking like apples will be early
Magnus pear was moving. I chopped it off though as mine had black rot. I haven’t looked everything over but I’ve looked at quite a bit. Not many pears have I looked at. There’s all kinds of non-natives in my Arboretum ready to learn a big lesson for a few months ahead, Lois.