Eighty-four Today!

4-6-10 SHORT HILLS: Two more beautiful days, even with a three-minute shower this morning. The ground barely got wet. Actually, I watered the plantings from last fall, all of them are alive, but a few seem slow to come around. It was in the mid-eighties today!

Yesterday I did a lot of pruning and took a carload to the dump, and today I cleaned up the pool area and took down some dead junipers along the pool fence.

All the trees and shrubs are leafing out except the ash trees and the rose-of-Sharon, both of which need a lot of encouragement to take the plunge into spring, or spring into leaf.

New blooms: violet, kerria, pear tree, marsh marigold, trout lily.


Marsh Marigold is at home midst the pachysandra and vinca minor.

Trout lily. I guess the mottled colors and shape of the leaf look like a fish.

Magnolia's big week.