Welcome Spring!

I ventured  outside in mid-thirty degree temperatures to snap a few pictures of my zone 5 garden just a few hours before it became Spring 2011.

Look at that snow bank behind my rockwall garden--It's gone down about 3 feet in the last week (we had one 60+ degree day), but it's still huge!

 Right next to the house in the backyard the snow is almost gone....now what did I stick in the ground to overwinter?

Ah, a closer inspection jogs my memory. I bought 5 Silver Mound Artemesia last fall and did not know what to do with them, so I just left them in their plastic containers and buried them in the ground in front of a basement window.  It looks like they will survive.

Now what's this hole? It looks like a skunk has already been digging in the front yard right under the living room window.  But look, there is a little spot of new green growth - a grape hyacinth.

This tiny little garden is the only one with no snow.  I can't wait until it is warm enough for me to go out and cut down the dead foliage.  I have not looked at the forecast for today, but right now it is 19 degrees, so I probably won't be out there today.

I hope it's more like spring where you are!