I’m joining Cathy and other gardeners at Rambling in the Garden this week, sort of, in presenting cut flowers (or branches or grasses or seedheads) from their garden. ‘Sort of’ because although I intended to snip a few stems from this purchased pot of mini daffodils (likely ‘T...

Winter is now just a memory of deep snow and frigid nights – it’s truly amazing how fast we’ve flipped the calendar to April and all of a sudden spring bulbs are poking through no longer frozen soil and yes, there are even a few flowers in bloom. There’s enough happening in my garden today to join Jim at

As you can see the snow is mostly melted away here, spring bulbs are popping up and although there’s nothing but clouds and rain in the forecast this week, yesterday and Saturday were sunny and a few degrees above freezing. I was able to spend a lot of hours outside pruning shrubs and trees, including many branches from a lovely red twig dogwood (Cornus sericea). Per...