Cherry Blossoms.

4-2-26 SHORT HILLS: Today is cold and rainy, yesterday was warm and sunny. I was outside doing more pruning, trimming and snipping. Yesterday was warm, T-shirt warm, and the breeze felt good, today needs a sweater and jacket and fleece cap. 

I got the pool cover pump working and the winter’s melt water is gone. The gardeners were here and the clean up is done, or mostly done. 

I put the rain gauge out just in time for last night’s 0.15 inches.

New blooms: Yoshino cherry, Okama cherry, march marigold, pachysandra, spice bush. 

Okama cherry is our earliest, a few days ahead of...

Yoshino cherry.

Pachysandra dewy from the rain.

Marsh Marigold appears around the yard now, blooms, and disappears for eleven months.

Spice bush has tiny flowers in yellow at the same time as forsythia, daffodils, marsh marigold, trout lily, crocus also in yellow.

Speaking of forsythia, what's more extravagant.