Me On A Monday - May 20th
It's all about the crown today - here in Canada we are celebrating Queen Victoria's birthday (her actual birthday was May 24th) & it's a holiday with everything closed. We always celebrate it on the 3rd Monday of May. It's also the official start of summer for us.
The other crown we, as is in Mr Man & myself, are celebrating or not, depending on your point of view is from Game of Thrones finale Sunday night & who gets to sit on the Iron Throne.
This is what is going on in & around my garden:
The rhubarb was transplanted last year, so I'm pleased that it is coming on strong;
Sparse offering from my own forsythia bush - I have no idea why it's not flowering more - anyone any ideas? Too much nitrogen? It gets all the dead wood cut out every year, trimmed back to keep it a certain height. I know next year's flowers grow on this year's new wood, so those don't get cut.
A few daffodils are nodding their golden heads;
Tulips, slow to be blooming, the others are waiting to see how these early bloomers do. I've lost a few tulip flowers to either chipmunks or squirrels. We are not amused!
The very fragrant hyacinth is blooming - I need to plant more for a mass showing / smelling.
The farmer has been very busy preparing the field behind us for planting & Saturday he planted corn.
We enjoyed very warm & humid temperatures on Sunday the 19th; 29(c) with a humid-ex of +33(c) which brought about some mighty thunder storms & a return to more seasonal temperatures of +16(c). Ah Ontario weather, the moody menopausal symptoms of Mother Nature.
I have no suggestions about the forsythia, sorry. I have never watched or read Game of Thrones, so I can't comment on that either.
ReplyDeleteBut I can say, the daffodils, tulips and hyacinths look lovely and that I hope you have a lovely Victoria Day.
It's funny I tried reading the books & couldn't get hooked, & it took me watching for 3 years to get Mr Man interested. Victoria Day so far is rain, overcast, windy - so an indoor day!
DeleteLots of farmers planting up our way, as well. I don't know about your forsythia. I had a year like that and thought it was due to a late cold snap, but I'm not sure that's the case this year. As long as you didn't cut it back in the early spring, I don't think you've done any damage. Quite the rain yesterday afternoon, wasn't it? -Jenn
ReplyDeleteJenn that was a few scary moments & it was amazing to so quickly feel that storm front cold move in. Thankfully no damage done. I'm not going to do any trimming of the forsythia this year & I may wrap against that north west wind that blows across them all winter. =^..^=
DeleteAlways lovely to see the Spring flowers appearing!
ReplyDeleteAm I weird in admitting that I have never seen GoT?
You are not weird at all. This finale season has sucked in not only writing but filming, so you aren't missing anything (col).
DeleteWe trim our forsythia, but rarely have to cut out much dead wood. Ours had good blooms this year. I sometimes have problems like that with my hydrangeas, but don't have a cause for that or for your forsythia. I sympathize about the tulips. Some animal almost always ate ours before they bloomed so we simply gave up. Last week we spend a lovely morning in Holland, Michigan viewing their amazing tulips, and decided we'd try again next year. Here in Wisconsin, we had the same weather pattern you did! I'm waiting (not so patiently) for consistent warmth and regular sunny daysl Lovely photos.
ReplyDeleteOh that would have been a lovely visit to Holland Michigan. I have problems with squirrels digging up & replanting the tulips else where - sometimes in someone else's garden or they eat them! I would like an on mass planting of tulips & daffodils.
DeleteI've read the first few of the GoT books and have seen 3? maybe seasons of it. We don't have access to it now, and I guess I'd watch it if we did just because it's on everyone's mind. But I don't really miss it.
ReplyDeleteYour flowers are lovely! I meant to try tulips and daffodils this year and just completely forgot. Next year for sure! But I imagine our chipmunk hordes will get to enjoy them before we get blooms. Never up, never in, though, so I do want to try it.
The chipmunks & squirrels don't eat the daffodils so a better choice if they are a problem. I really like tulips but they get mostly eaten or transplanted by the squirrels. GoT, I tried the books, they didn't catch me the way other books do, but the HBO series, I got bit early on although there was much more violence in the first seasons which I fast forward through & even some of the really racy sex scenes! This last season was a huge disappointment (except that my favourite character, Sansa, ended up as Queen of the North).
DeleteI prefer daffodils anyway, so I appreciate that advice. My zinnias have trouble getting up and blooming because of the chipmunks. They are adorable, but still...
DeleteI liked Jon best from the beginning (well, once Sean Bean had his predictable untimely demise lol), and we got a lot of use of the phrase "You know nothing, Jon Snow" around here. And I was interested in Arya and the Samwell/Gilly story, and we want our own dire wolf :) The dragons were my least favorite part. If the series ever gets to a provider I can access (I'm looking at you, Amazon Prime) I'll probably catch up. I gave up on the books completely. I think they'd've benefited from a strong-willed editor.
We even say "you know nothing" with Egrets accent. She was wonderful in Downton. Winter is Coming took over in this area & we had "vandals" even change the highway sign of John Snow Parkway to Jon Snow Parkway & it wasn't noticed by the authorities for several days - the fans were stopping to take photos. I have to start my sunflowers indoors because the chippies decide that as a treat they are divine - this year I WILL have sunflowers.
DeleteHope you're having a nice day. There's been a lot about Victoria here too, because of the bicentenary of her birth. Funny you should mention the squirrels eating your flowers. Yesterday I watched one systematically pulling a pansy apart and having a feast of it. I too am "not amused"! Little sod!
ReplyDeleteIt has been a very chilly & blustery day (in the hundred acre wood) too much for any outside work. Inside with more decluttering going on! The squirrels are the worse offenders in my garden & I think war will be declared soon. How rude to tear your pansy apart - off with his head (well not really but a good chasing off will do).
DeleteSame here with the tulips - it's definitely squirrels! I keep finding a barely opened blossom nipped off neatly beside the plants.
ReplyDeleteI have a gang of 4 black squirrels in my garden. One is a nursing mommy squirrel but the other 3 I think are her babies from last year. We are not allowed to trap & relocate to other areas, so there's no point.
DeleteI love that everything is starting to come alive. I found it a little chilly with that wind at times today.
ReplyDeleteIt's a beautiful time of year & it's got a wonderful scent about it. I'm about the garden several times a day with a mug of tea checking to see what's returning & what's not ...
DeleteYour garden looks like it has got lots of Spring colour. Spring bulbs are over here and our garden is in that Spring to summer transition stage.
ReplyDeleteThe spring flowers are really late this year so I think there will be overlap with the summer ones. It is becoming quite a riotous colour fest.
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