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Loquacious phoebes, returning much earlier this year, perch above pots of super-abundant pansy faces, while brother and sister pansies below in the garden seem uncertain regarding their own productivity.
Overhead, birds chatter about architectural components for this year’s phoebe structure. All details must be decided before building can commence on a new wing for last year’s nesting place.
Being the guardian of a such bounty. I am compelled to disperse the grazing cattle before they can devour or trample everything within their sphere.
I glance under forest trees as I careen down the driveway in the Blazer. Where is the bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) that typically blankets the woodland floor during the first week of March? Not one small white blossom is visible.
We gardeners expect an orderly appearance of actors on the luxuriant spring stage and so far, 1998 is a muddle. From today’s point of reference, most flowering trees seem weeks ahead. Yesterday’s undertaking — pruned fat budded plum (p. hortulana) branches — lie in the field beside the fence.
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