Our Purple Gem rhododendrons are glorious with Purple Prince tulips nearby, and besides the many other mid-spring daffodils, my favorite Thalia and Nearly Rose are in full bloom across from one another.

I have to decide which of the 2 thousand bulbs I've been cooling down cellar can still be forced in time to sell on the farm stand when we set it up, and which I should just plant in a nursery bed or in one of the flower gardens. All of them should have been potted up a couple of months ago and on the stand now.

Aglo rhody is just coming into bloom, and the cheerful Quail daffodills nearby will still be pretty in early June.

Lots of work to do when a gardener is playing catch-up.

maeve