Spring! No, no wait....winter.

Bit of a weather roller coaster 'round these parts of late. Quite a few scattered days in the 60s, interspersed with.....

Yeah. That was yesterday.

But two days before....

The sprout in the upper right is one of the three smaller allium. The sprout in the middleish bottom (detail below) is the big ol' allium about which I am super psyched,

The peony is sending up shoots

After the yellow crocuses came the purple ones

The season's first daffodil! It's one of 2015's bulbs.

The is the state of play of the daffodils along the back yard's back wall. To the right are 2015 plantings. 2016 to the left.

And then there is more inspiration from A Way To Garden: wouldn't it be lovely to recreate this with willows? Willows! It could be at the "entrance" up to the yard from the patio in back, when we eventually redo the patio and that wall.

From http://www.willowsvermont.com/kits.html

And why did I never put together before that pussy willows and weeping willows come from the same family?!