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by $8 blue check mistermix|  April 11, 20118:34 am| 25 Comments

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Our day lilies opened yesterday. It is really spring, and here’s an open thread, because I have to go.

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  1. 1.

    aimai

    April 11, 2011 at 8:37 am

    Yes, its spring! the time of year when I find the bulbs I meant to plant last fall quietly moldering in the cellar and I’m too frightened to plant them because I’m sure the squirrels will just dig them up in two seconds.

    aimai

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    WereBear

    April 11, 2011 at 8:41 am

    @aimai: Plant daffys! I believe they are inedible.

  3. 3.

    satby

    April 11, 2011 at 8:41 am

    If the picture above is what opened, it’s a daffodil.
    aimai, plant the bulbs and put a toy snake in the garden near them (a realistic looking one). Scares the squirrels away. But they don’t eat daffodils anyway, neither do deer, so I mostly plant daffs for spring color.

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    JPL

    April 11, 2011 at 8:42 am

    Day Lilies are daffodils?? hmmm

  5. 5.

    marianne19

    April 11, 2011 at 8:46 am

    A little early for day lillies……

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    JPL

    April 11, 2011 at 8:47 am

    Mistermix, It is a nice picture though.

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    burnspbesq

    April 11, 2011 at 8:51 am

    Ross must be trying to impress some liberal girl. This is about as shrill as he ever gets.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/opinion/11douthat.html?_r=1&wpisrc=nl_wonk

  8. 8.

    RossInDetroit

    April 11, 2011 at 8:53 am

    Yesterday I saw the first male goldfinch in full summer plumage. But I’m not taking the snow shovel off the front porch until June, just in case.

  9. 9.

    Moonbatting Average

    April 11, 2011 at 9:03 am

    Must be nice, in Austin it’s beginning to feel like summer

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    GregB

    April 11, 2011 at 9:26 am

    This is daffodil and crocus season.

    Day lilly season comes in the summer.

  11. 11.

    burnspbesq

    April 11, 2011 at 9:27 am

    There was an announcement last week that Mammoth Mountain still has a 25 foot base, and expects to be open until early July. I haven’t checked with the National Park Service, but I assume this means that the road into Yosemite from the east won’t open until at least June.

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    TaMara (BHF)

    April 11, 2011 at 9:37 am

    I was sung to by a meadowlark yesterday. Always a good sign of spring.

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    Halteclere

    April 11, 2011 at 9:42 am

    Daffodils are my favorite flower. On my parent’s land, in the middle of the woods several clumps spring forth from the ground every spring, marking where some settler family a long time ago built a log cabin and tried their hand at farming. Nothing remains of the cabin – the foundation rocks have all been reused on other houses in the area and the woods have completely closed in any clearing that had been made. But the daffodils return year after year.

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    David in NY

    April 11, 2011 at 9:43 am

    The tarragon is just inching above the soil. Yes!

    And in case mistermix has missed the point, that is NOT a daylily.

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    jane from hell

    April 11, 2011 at 9:48 am

    Peak dogwood (and wisteria) season here in NC & SC. The azaleas all seem to be on individual schedules this year, even parts of the same plant. My butterfly rose is about to bust out all over. The pine trees look like they’re flipping the bird at everyone.

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    RossInDetroit

    April 11, 2011 at 9:53 am

    I’ll know it’s spring when my prickly pear cactus bounces back from being crushed under the snow and starts sprouting new pads. The thing has gotten huge and last summer it gave us over 100 blossoms.

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    Lacey Ann

    April 11, 2011 at 9:58 am

    The simple beauty of a yellow flower is simply wondrous. Thanks for this, excellent close up.

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    Violet

    April 11, 2011 at 10:05 am

    @GregB:

    Day lilly season comes in the summer.

    Not where I live. Day lily season will begin in a few weeks. I keep checking mine for buds. My daffodils are well past finished. The foliage has mostly died back.

  19. 19.

    Chinn Romney

    April 11, 2011 at 10:21 am

    The last pile of snow left Westminster MA yesterday morning, with a little help from my shovel. It’s going to be a couple of weeks before we get any color around here. A quick 10 minute jaunt east on Rt 2 and they’re a week ahead of us. Make it 60 and down here in the People’s Republik where I work, they’re at least 2 weeks ahead.

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    johnny's mom

    April 11, 2011 at 10:24 am

    I wanna live where Violet and Jane from Hell live! We get Day Lilies in July and Wisteria in May, Kousa Dogwood in June and Common Dogwood in May. My Daffies opened up about a week ago.

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    tess

    April 11, 2011 at 10:37 am

    So, since moving our cat inside fulltime, the neighbor cat has been using my raised beds all winter as a catbox. (We only discovered this recently, so it may not have been all winter.) She stays toward the center, away from where the herbs from last year are still growing around the edges.

    I’m not too worried about losing the parsley, since it’s going to seed and I need more for this season anyway. But the Greek oregano and savory are coming back beautifully and are mostly in the far corners, so I hate to dig them up if I don’t have to do it. Does anyone know? Or is this a personal ick-factor question?

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    Origuy

    April 11, 2011 at 10:54 am

    @burnspbesq: Tioga Pass is CA 120, so the place to get info would be Caltrans, not NPS. They haven’t posted a schedule yet, but I think June would be the earliest to open the Pass.

  23. 23.

    Blumenversand

    April 11, 2011 at 11:26 am

    Very nice image of a beautyful plant.

  24. 24.

    Calimatt

    April 11, 2011 at 11:52 am

    Test

  25. 25.

    Mike S

    April 11, 2011 at 12:06 pm

    @tess: No it isn’t just the “ick”factor. Cat feces definitely carry diseases, such as Toxoplasmosis. This is an even worse problem with plants you may eat raw like parsely.

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