Spring blooms

It's beginning to feel like spring!  Easter was  a flurry of activity at Lilies and lavender, most of the flowers bloomed on time but a few just refused to behave.  The ranunculus was the most troublesome.  The first batch of corms rotted in the flooded basement, the second batch turned out to be a short variety sent to me by accident and the third batch has decided that it will bloom whenever it feels like it, thank you very much.   This is the first Easter I can remember without daffodils.  Lilies, tulips, alstromeria, larkspur and iris all blooming their fool heads off and no daffodils, it just ain't right!  The greenhouse is nice and warm helping the lilies to bloom but the fields were just to cold for the daffs. 

 I have a family of shrews living in my small greenhouse. They are having a grand time dining on my early lisianthus, rosemary and campanula. I found a nice note thanking me for the gourmet salad bar.  I rewarded them by putting out traps  filled with peanut butter which April and Czara thought were  great treats.  Shrews 2 lissies 0.  And 0 lissies is exactly what I will have if I can't find the shrews a nice vacation spot for the spring and summer season.  Speaking of lissies I have another 2800 hundred plugs to plant, ( in anther cold frame without shrews).  I just made a nice raised bed for them today and will start planting tomorrow.  In a few months I will be over- flowing with lissies !

It seems strange but I have no flowers blooming now. I cut every flower I had for Easter.  If the weather cooperates I should have plenty of flowers from the fields and the greenhouses  for the opening of the Doylestown farmers market on April 19.  Look for lilies, larkspur, iris, tulips, daffodils, spirea, campanula, ranunculus and maybe some azalea. 

Mother's day promises lots and lots of pink and white lilies, ranunculus, campanula and maybe lilacs and viburnum.  I will also have hanging baskets of begonia, hardy geranium and other mixed flowers.  I will keep you updated on the varietes and bloom times of all the flowers .

Happy Spring!