Creeping Toward May.

4-27-15 SHORT HILLS: It hasn’t gotten much warmer, but spring is still building—my nose and sinuses inform me that there's lots of pollen. The grass is starting to grow in some places. The bare spots in our ‘freedom’ lawn haven’t filled in with the usual bunch of short weeds as yet.

Maizie has left several holes in the yard and beds that I will fill when I’m ambulatory.

I’m still assessing the amount of winterkill. Some damage is obvious, but sometimes the full extent isn’t clear until part of a tree or shrub that you thought was OK, doesn’t green up. Shrubs on the Danger List include: crepe myrtle, caryopteris, butterfly bush, rhododendron, beauty berry, kerria, bayberry, St. Johns wort.

New blooms: bleeding heart, pear, white ash.


Bleeding Heart.

Flowering Pear - another early fruit tree.