It’s the long weekend here in Canada, and for most gardeners that marks the time to plant, and the busiest time for garden centers. For seventeen years I have missed spring, each and every time it rolled around. Sixteen years working in a garden center, and the last spring renovating, and selling our condo meant spring was something other gardeners did, and I did part time if at all.
I am finally fully relishing spring this year without any reservations. I loved spring in a garden center, it was the most exciting time, full of customers, and shiny new plants, but our personal gardens suffered for it. And this is the first time in a long time that I can look outside and see planted gardens, and not boxes of product needing attention.
Up here our spring is a little lagging, but we have lilacs blooming almost everywhere now… one thing the Okanagan does to abundance is lilacs. Hedges, plantings, bushes, trees, shrubs, all lilacs, and all colors. Seems like every yard but ours has lilacs in it, we took a fragrant, and colorful walk through the neighbourhood last night, and now we are on the hunt for our own lilac bushes.
They are proving to be a little hard to find who would have thought, but I will persevere, and find some for our yard. And then we too shall be lilac laden.