You know the saying. April showers bring May flowers. I’m about done with the showers, so bring on the flowers.
In some ways, it’s a bit funny. While it may not have warmed up much, it seems that a lot of the plants haven’t noticed too much. Give them lots of rain and the off sunny day and they seem happy.
I have some nice spots of colour popping up around my back yard. Yellow from the forsythia and a few daffodils. Pink from the magnolia that had suddenly decided to start blooming. A bit of blue and pink from the lungwort, which seems to grow pretty much everywhere it feels like and blooms almost constantly. And even a bit of red from the quince that is just starting to bud. So the April showers seem to be doing their job.
There was a time when I took that saying a bit more literally. I thought the showers of April brought mayflowers. You know. The actual provincial flower of Nova Scotia.
I’ve seen a few around so far this year. Not a lot. I guess I’m going to have to find different places to look, because I seem to be finding fewer and fewer of them each year in the areas where I normally look.
Not that I spend a lot of time looking for mayflowers. But I do know a few spots where they tend to be found, so I like to look. Just to see if there are any around.
I also do the same thing with a number of other wild flowers. It should only be another week or two before the trillium start to appear. And lady slippers can’t be far off either.
I know it’s not quite May yet, but we don’t have to stand on that formality. So finding a few mayflowers would be nice. Guess I might need to search a few other spots.
