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It's hard to believe that April is basically here already. Seemingly within the last 24-48 hours, the magnolia buds around the nursery have popped open, daffodils and crocuses have created a technicolor patchwork amongst the nodding flowerheads of muted rose and deep burgundy hellebores, eager songbirds have begun gathering nesting material wherever available: testaments to the warmer, longer days we've finally breached.
Happy Spring, everyone! It might not feel like it quite yet, but warmer days are ahead of us. With spring, a sense of renewal emerges. A state of Mother Nature unraveling, gingerly shaking herself free of winter's skeletons and frost, blossoming into a state of resilient plenitude that once again quiets the slow, dull ache in our cold, weather-weary bones. In typical human fashion, once the heat of summer does finally arrive a couple months from now, we'll be whimsically longing for the cooler days of early spring that we currently take for granted.
With Saint Patrick's Day upon us, it seemed appropriate that we explore some non-shamrock plants native to the heaths, marshes, hillsides and meadows of Ireland.
