I, as well as many of you, am getting weary of winter. The lengthening hours of daylight and warmth of the sun on the days we see it are encouraging.
A road trip to Sioux Center yesterday (Sunday) to visit a relative showed lots of open ground, a sharp contrast to our white landscape and the snow-piled road ditches.
My therapy this week is to go and cut a few branches of pussy willow, apricot and lilac to force indoors. Forsythia, plum, and crab apple are other good candidates. I will cut the stems, put them in a deep vase of water, and set the vase in a bright, sunlit area, but not in direct sun.
It is exciting to watch how quickly the emerging leaves and flower buds expand. You can expect color within two weeks.
That’s the best I can do today to assure you that spring will come … because it always does!