{"id":68464,"date":"2021-03-23T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=68464"},"modified":"2021-03-23T12:38:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T12:38:00","slug":"spring-is-here-and-so-we-ramp-up-the-garden-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2021\/03\/spring-is-here-and-so-we-ramp-up-the-garden-adventures\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Is Here, And So We Ramp Up The Garden Adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Out of nowhere it feels like winter has retreated to a seat out the back, and made room for spring to have its time in the spotlight. Sure, the weather isn’t super warm just yet, but if you’ve been following the weather forecast with any sort of focus (I have, because I am crocheting a “weather scarf” – more on that another time), you’ll definitely have noticed that the mornings aren’t quite so brisk, and the now sunlit evenings don’t also have that bone-chilling factor that makes you want to go back indoors pronto.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Spring gives me a sort of “hurry up” feeling; that desire to do EVERYTHING NOW, and if possible, get it done YESTERDAY. There’s more hours in the day, but at the same time, I’m overcome by a need to do even more than what I’ve set as my daily tasks. My daughter moved to Canada last year, leaving me the only female in a testosterone-fuelled household. But feel for the men in my house, not for me. They’re subject to my whims of DO IT NOW, and it’s vastly at odds with their laissez-faire attitudes.<\/p>\n

It seems I’m not the only one who has that hurry up feeling when it comes to spring – and no, I’m not talking about my family. Over the winter we dug out our side front garden, so we could put our garbage bins there, instead of having to move them from the back garden every bin day. In so doing, we dug up a rose bush, along with several other plants.<\/p>\n

It seems we didn’t dig them all out…because what should confront us on, appropriately, the Vernal Equinox, was this:<\/p>\n

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Yep. That’s not just one, but two fully formed daffodils climbing out from underneath a thick application of weed matting and many, many, bags of gravel and pebbles. As Dr Ian Malcolm so famously said in ‘Jurassic Park’, “Life…uh…finds a way.”<\/p>\n

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