Letter: So much spring color around us, so suddenly

Posted 6/9/16

To the editor:

It doesn’t seem possible as I rejoice in my beautiful green world that a little over a month ago the shorn fields were still winter bleak and the perennial beds dull and …

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Letter: So much spring color around us, so suddenly

Posted

To the editor:

It doesn’t seem possible as I rejoice in my beautiful green world that a little over a month ago the shorn fields were still winter bleak and the perennial beds dull and expectant.

Daffodils, tulips and crocus did try to cheer us while we waited for Spring, but it was a long time coming. Now the fields are full of buttercups and daisies and grasses, the most beguiling being a purple grass which, when open, looks like lavender lace in the late afternoon sun.

Tree peonies and bleeding heart have gone by, but there are at least three kinds of iris blooming, and peonies and lupine and baptisia and flowering shrubs. The ubiquitous Russian olive has been scenting the air, soon to be followed by the also ubiquitous and invasive rosa multiflora, which is late this year.

Good news is that the dreaded winter moth seems to have taken a vacation from our area and the bad news is that all of the old growth of bush hydrangeas has been killed and only green sprouts are showing at the base. Alas these will not bloom this year.

Bird song now fills the once quiet air, the beach is beckoning and I hope you have a chance to be outside to enjoy.

Sidney Tynan

Little Compton

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