Snow falls as this spring begins. Already though this winter I have passed in small pockets here and there silver maples, winter aconite, various witch hazels, snowdrops, hellebores, crocuses and the paperbush, all in bloom.
Though the calendar indicates we are still a couple days shy of spring and the weathermen say it may snow again in New York, already the earliest of bloomers are doing their thing and right now the sky is blue and clear.
Karen Orlando: I was a 2010 horticultural intern at Brooklyn Botanic and an organic vegetable gardener at Floyd Bennett Gardens Association, a community garden in Brooklyn.
last words (with berries)
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