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Mysterious little things poke
out of the ground in April.
A lot of them turn out to be
weeds. But others prove to be con
siderably more pleasant or pro
ductive surprises.
“I have green things coming up
around the house,” confides a dear
Mend, having just acquired her
first home. “But I have no idea
what they are.”
As the blanket of snow eased
away into meltdown, cheery green
almost instantly pushed up in its
place. Real growth became appa-
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rent the morning The Fanner
pointed oiit the window at part of
the heifer herd on the meadow
hillside. Black and white muzzles
were all tight against the pasture
grass.
Spring grazing had begun with
the “girts” were busy nosing for
the choicest, most tender new
shoots. Probably garlic, if they can
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find it, just like we do.
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yard usually show in the bare soil
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of a sheltered, sun-warmed comer
near die basement porch. Slender,
dark-green crocus foliage emerges
early, often shoving the first blos
som up through soggy patches of
snow.
Enjoying the unexpected show
of color there, I only vaguely
recall sticking in crocus bulbs that
had been unearthed from one of
the borders while weeding. Their
tiny blooms open wide to early
April sunshine, snuggled close to
the ground as if for warmth, but
petals sprawled like bodies on a
beach, “catching rays.” One lar
ger, more stately purple bloom
seems out of place.
Flanking the crocus ate clusters
of lime-colored primrose leaves
and lavendar-green columbine
foliage. And nearby,' radish seeds
sprout atop the dark, moist soil,
my concession to an earlier,
70-degree afternoon when it
became simply impossible not to
plant something anything!
in the ground.
Found poking up through the
residue of dried grass that had
overgrown part the asparagus
patch was a row of hollyhock see
dlings. Memory jogged, I did
recall planting the pack of seeds
I there and tending the resulting
infant perennials. These rugged,
old-fashioned flowers, patron
symbol of the Society of Farm
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Women, hold a special place in
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Single-bloom hollyhocks that
grew at my childhood home woe
often denuded of their blossoms
for the sake of dollmaldng. A
wide-open bloom forms the doll’s
wide skirt, while a tight bud.
showing some color, is used for
the head.
And on the day of our daught
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hock plants, shared by a friend as
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themselves a place in the floral
scheme of things around here.
We recognize the sprouts of
daffodils and daylilies, tulips, iris,
peonies and various other peren
nials reappearing in the beds and
borders, and wait with eagerness
to see what mysterious newcom
ers turn up beside them.
And in the springs that have
again opened up and trickle
among die swampy mess that pas
ses for a back yard, I fully expect
to some morning find yet another
volunteer green sprout poking
through.
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