My April Garden

It's wonderful to see how Spring is coming to places all over the world.....I've seen how little things are popping up in the forests of Austria and I've seen how the grass is turning green and the trees are blossoming in England.....
But here in Colorado, Spring comes slowly.  Winter has a tenacious grip on the land and even the flowers that dare to poke their heads above the soil are oftentimes met with a garish glaze from winter's eyes.  It can easily snow a foot in March or April and it most definitely will dip at night into the twenties and thirties fahrenheit until Mid-May......

But there is some hope out there....just today, some 10 miles south of here, there were blossoms on trees and they were glorious.  But here, right here at home, there are tiny smidgens of life....and so, here is my garden:

Lots of dark skies lately....but as you can see....that's a LAWN out there and it's NOT GREEN.

Here is the rhubarb, making its way.  It's a sturdy plant....just wait until June; you will not believe it...and from it will come pies and pies and pies.....and some more pies!

Here are my tulips....some will never bloom, I'm afraid.  The soil is so bad, so dry, so hard....yet is too cold to do much about on most days.  Still, they rally each year....hoping to find CA instead of CO

sad little creatures, aren't they?

Here's more of the rhubarb......

rhubarb....we have lots of rhubarb

Here's a close-up of our trees; not too much going on quite yet....maybe next week (or month)

these are poppies....and are extraordinary when they're up.  They are short-lived, but I'll capture a photo

And here was the backyard last THURSDAY...seriously...it was all gone by dinnertime, but was quite interesting to wake up to!!

Don't get me wrong....I LOVE Colorado.....and the garden will come, but a bit later....so keep posting your lovely photographs of your gardens....I will live vicariously through them for now

And here's our pond right now....it's leaking and so workers have drained it and are searching for a leak.  It's quite an undertaking.....the fish (all 54 of them) are in a temporary 'pool' with an aerator