Why is it that the onset of warmer weather gets folks energized? It’s a wonderful thing, for sure! Yesterday I spent doing stoop labour in the gardens – raking swathes of dried miscanthus and swearing to mulch it over so that I don’t have the huge dusty windrows to move next year. Relocating Rudbeckia and bergamot for the hummingbird/bee garden, pruning the grape vines, splitting unruly clumps of day-lillies and trying to enforce some type of order in the borders. The spring bulbs are rampant this year and it feels so HAPPY to watch them bobbing in the breeze. The trees wear that luscious green fuzz of emerging leaves that makes me want to take a bite and feel the juice (if there was…

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