It finally feels like spring has truly sprung! I missed last week’s “around the farm” because we took a long weekend to visit Grace, our daughter, in Charleston! While there we managed to fit in a house and garden tour with the Charleston Garden Club so it was a great weekend all around! We came back to the farm after three days and the magnolia trees were blooming and the forsythia was glowing!
Both of these magnolias were planted before we moved here and while they aren’t super shapely, I appreciate their beautiful pink blooms. We alway hope and pray we don’t get a damaging frost during their bloom because that makes the blooms turn brown and awful looking. For about a week during the Star magnolias bloom, our bathroom is a magical place to be. Both of the windows are filled with white blooms! I’ve tried and tried to get a good photograph and have not succeeded so this is a poor image of one of the windows.
In Bloom
The daffodils started blooming in earnest this week! One of my favorite places is the orchard area where we’ve planted little pockets of daffodils that brighten up the entire landscape. I love seeing them sway in the breeze!
In the House
It’s so nice to be able to step outside and pick flowers again. In fact, I feel fairly rusty with arranging them!
In the Kitchen
This week was a lighter cooking week than normal due to travel but I did make Lavender Shortbread! Ya’ll it’s so good! It’s from the cookbook, The Edible Flower: A Modern Guide to Growing, Cooking and Eating Edible Flowers by Erin Bunting. One thing I love about baking/cooking with lavender is that it can be done anytime of year since lavender dries so well. This means that there isn’t some huge push to bake all the things during peak lavender season! As a side note, I love how this pale blue dish, my sister gave it to me for Christmas, echos the blue/purple of the lavender. I’m a sucker for details.
It’s been a rainy week so I’m feeling behind on a few things, such as getting my peas and radishes sown. I suppose I’ll just have to deal with the soaked soil and get to it! Also, things have begun arriving in the mail that I optimistically and enthusiastically ordered in the fall and then promptly forgot about! This means I have trees and raspberries to plant, a new rhubarb, which is my latest attempt to get consistently red stalks (mine always turn green!!), and the weeding of the peony field never, ever stops (the dandelions and the onion grass may be the end of me). I hope you have had a good week wherever you are!
