Is upon us, at least in Alberta anyway. The billowing smoke is affecting our weather, and giving us flaming red sunsets aswell. The air smelled a wee bit smokey this morning at the school drop off, but my thinking is that was more locally sourced due to the overnight frost warnings, and chill air this AM. And not a scented carry over from out west.
In other scented news our Lilacs are about 2 to 3 weeks early this year, and there is zero chance any will still be open and perfumed by the time my wife’s 40th birthday rolls around. A shame that. Usually the Lilacs only need to hold on for a couple days, but seeing as how half are already spent here, we’ll have no luck keeping the aroma until early June. Which sucks.
Makes me wish I could find a Russian Olive tree to plant around here, I love the way those smell. Or get some Jasmine planted near by. Anything with a pleasing aroma to make being outside on our property more appealing. As far as being visually appealing the apple tree blooms are going all out this year. Half of the cherry tree is blooming now too. The tulips, those now dead headed & eaten by the local squirrels, are looking good this year. We bought and planted about 50-75 last year, and the chipmunks, squirrels, and bunnies ate most of them. We had twenty five, twenty eight actually bloom this year, and a portion of those got gobbled by the wee bastards. Little shit heads.
I have a few Glads to plant, so let us see if any of those come up later next month. Ciao Bella.
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