Here comes Peter Cottontail
Ahhhh…. Can you smell it? Spring is in the air. I LOVE the month of April. The earth bursts with new life. All my plants seem to be on steroids as they grow inches each day.
I delight in tiptoeing out to my gardens early in the morning. No lawn mowers, cars, garbage trucks or barking dogs to intrude on the morning hush. I look for fresh dew on emerging daffodils; inhale the intoxicating fragrance of white forsythia (Abeliophyllum) (pictured right); and delight in the swelling buds of the Enkianthus (pictured below).
I scurry over to see the golden leaf buds unfurling on the bright red stems of Dogwood ‘Prairie Fire’ (‘Sunshine’ and ‘Aurea’ are very similar!). Out of the corner of my eye I see the fuzzy pink pussy willow catkins of Salix gracilistyla ‘Mt Aso’.
Magical. I am in heaven as I listen to the song birds and survey the lush spring landscape until I see a slight movement in a garden. Is that a rabbit nibbling on the tulip foliage?! I race to the garage and grab Plantskydd Rabbit and Small Critter Repellent, an organic taste and smell repellant that also fertilizes plants. It keeps rabbits, chipmunks and voles at bay. I shake some granules around the tulips plus other plants that might look like rabbit candy. That will hold them at bay for a good three months. Bye Bye Peter.
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