Well, it's the last day, anyway. April starts tomorrow.
It's still March today and with the sustained record breaking warmth there has been way too early growth. I haven't been outside at all -- it's hard to navigate on the knee scooter and I've only been out to the patio and to the driveway to maneuver into the car for appointments.
But I can see the redbud is in full bloom, and the viburnum too, although the viburnum and the crabapple both leafed out well before any flowers, so the effects are odd.
When I did finally roll out the kitchen door today to look at the pots by the table I was amazed.
The bush clematis has exploded.
I want to tie the floppy canes to the shepherd's crook pole to keep it from dragging its pretty flowers on the ground, but I can't get to my bench where the orchid clips or ties are.
I can't even get the scooter up on the raised stone by the door to tie anything.
All of April I will still be on the scooter, and . . .
. . . I need to let things go. All of it.
I need to look away. The plants will do what they do. I'll fix things later, in late May or June.
I want to divide the Black Adder agastche -- it's coming in now in its pot. But that will have to wait.
The Radio Red salvias, still in their black plastic nursery pots, need trimming and re-potting. That will have to wait too.
The sedum in the terra cotta pot is filling out. That was supposed to be divided and planted out along the moss rock border. That won't be done.
This is the hardest part -- the small jobs that need doing, the minor adjustments, not the canceling of my big planting plans and new installations.
All I can tend to now is watering, and after dry and warm conditions all of March, there is a bit of rain (maybe a quarter inch) forecast for tomorrow. Jim has hooked up the hoses and has been watering, but it's not much, it's not everything, and the oaks in the field aren't getting anything.
I need to look away and just let things be. Let them be. I have over a month to go before I can tend to what needs doing. I can start weight bearing in May, and by late May and June I can get out there to fix things.
It's still only March.