The Growing Surprises

When we finally move into our Bear River house in a month (fingers crossed!) it will be our first spring and already I’m discovering surprises popping up everywhere. There were no flower gardens at the house, but I’m seeing little clues here and there that suggests what once grew here.

For instance, several clumps of frilly heirloom daffodils pushed their heads up through the leaves on the side of the hill about a month ago.

Over 2 dozen frilly, heritage daffodills surprised us.

A straight row of tulips in the middle of the lawn follows the line of a house on the property that was torn down in the 1960s.  The funny thing is that unknowingly I had a load of manure dumped on top of some of them last fall and the tulips pushed their way 3 feet through the manure and have bloomed bright yellow.

The tulips that weren't buried in manure were yellow and orange!?

A clump of creeping flocks showed itself in front of the house, also in the middle of the lawn.

Another total lawn surprise.

Near the end of the septic tiles clumps of beautiful Narcissus popped up.

These delecate beauties survived a back hoe, digging and truck tires!

I don’t really want to cut the grass at all because I keep seeing things coming up that could be flowers.

There are a few overgrown flowering shrubs that I’m really looking forward to seeing what they actually are.

This ancient apple tree bears Nova Scotian Gravenstein apples.!

And of course right now we are being treated to spectacular apple blossoms.  As I walk around the yard discovering all these beautiful signs of spring I hear the birds singing and the pheasants squawking.  This is truly paradise.

The apple blossoms are so, so pretty.