Another sign that the garden is waking up from its winter slumber -- our primroses are blooming!
I haven't bought a primrose in ages. These are both hardy plants that have come back for us year after year.
Other than that, I've got nothing today. Yesterday was a grind. I am just running every second of every day. I swear I don't know what happened to my job -- it used to be so chill! Now I am just never caught up.
Daffodils, then primrose. Happy flowers are a harbinger to retirement.
ReplyDeleteThe garden's way of welcoming me!
DeleteThe Barnhaven primroses are the ones to cultivate, though sadly the nursery has gone to France. But the double outlined petals are beautiful and it was an American lady who hybridised them in 1936.
ReplyDeleteOh, interesting. I hadn't heard of those. I'll have to keep an eye out for them. Can we still get them, post-Brexit?
DeleteIt's difficult to be invested in work when you know you will be leaving very soon. Not long now . . .
ReplyDeleteIt really is. I didn't expect it to be as hard as it is.
DeleteWhen you can see your exit date looming, life does take on a very different meaning, loving spring in the garden.
ReplyDeleteI'm loving it too!
DeleteThe race is almost run...! (Not that I wish to compare you to Pearly Spencer...)
ReplyDeleteHa! I had to look up who that is. I don't think I've ever heard that song!
DeleteI know what happened. She wears jackboots, carries a bullwhip and loves Reeding.
ReplyDeleteShe's really not THAT bad, YP!
DeleteAwful how a new boss can ruin a perfectly good job. The end is near (in a good way). The builder planted primroses in the flower bed outside our front door in San Francisco. Nice memory.
ReplyDeleteWe never had primroses where I grew up in Florida. I guess like many plants, they wouldn't survive the intense sun.
DeleteImagine the next person next year trying to learn a job and never being able to catch up.
ReplyDeleteIt's going to be an interesting time and I'm glad I won't be here for it.
DeleteI'm being picky...the first isn't a primrose....it is a primula .Wrong colour..and the second is a sort of primula that I love..an auricula!
ReplyDeleteMy primroses haven't stopped flowering for well over two years despite the weather here.
Isn't Primula simply the Latin name for primroses? I thought they were the same thing.
DeleteGoogle says you are correct, Steve!
DeleteOK, I'm learning something new here. Apparently "primrose" refers only to wild-type Primulas, while Primula refers to any of them, wild or hybrid. So not all Primulas are primroses, but all primroses are Primulas? Am I right, Gwynneth?
DeleteI guess it's good you're counting down to the end of library duty!
ReplyDeleteIt's not coming fast enough!
DeleteThey are all beautiful flowers whatever you call them. My little Tete a Tete daffodils are popping up in the most unexpected places, I think I may have 'weeded out' some of the bulbs, added them to the compost and then distributed the compost around the garden. They will all be transplanted to pots when they have finished flowering, ready for our move.
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing how durable bulbs are, isn't it? They come up wherever they land! I pass a house on my walk home where the garden has been dug up for utility work, and in the pile of dirt, bulbs are sprouting!
DeleteEarly spring flowers, a sign of hope for the future.
ReplyDeleteIndeed.
DeleteI had a primrose in Ohio and it always amazed me how hardy it was! However, the insects LURRRVVVED it so by the time I would see the blooms they were a raggedy mess.
ReplyDeleteOurs can get gnawed by slugs, particularly as they age. But when they first emerge new and fresh, they're beautiful!
DeleteYour primroses are beautiful. I have some as well and I'm always impressed with how hardy they are. Hang in there. Not long now.
ReplyDeleteI am hanging in, but just barely!
DeleteI think wild primroses, cultivated primula. They're not quite the same. I wonder if your job hasn't speeded up, but you've slowed down? In anticipation, I mean.
ReplyDeleteYes, I think you may be right. I always thought the terms were interchangeable but maybe not in the strictest sense.
DeleteLook at those darling faces of the primroses! I love them for their fearlessness in the face of color!
ReplyDeleteYes! And the color variety is always amazing.
DeleteWell, you won't be sorry to retire!
ReplyDeleteI'm so happy to see flowers on blog posts lately as we have none here yet...
I will not be sorry. I am ready!
DeleteThe primroses are cheerful and beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThe library pace needs to calm down. You will not miss the library.
It used to be quite calm but it is just crazy lately -- much more frequent display changes, more involvement in the Lower School, etc etc.
DeleteAnother plant that keeps on giving. Sometimes work can be such a drag. You are lucky, you have an end in sight.
ReplyDeleteI really am, even when it still seems so far away.
DeleteI have primroses too. They haven't survived well for me though. My late husband hated them since, according to him, the leaves look like weeds. I love the flowers though and the multitude of colors and styles!
ReplyDeleteWell, it's true that the leaves are sort of nondescript, but I don't mind them! Some of ours are tougher than others. I think like many plants, some varieties of Primula suffer from over-hybridizing and they don't last much more than a season.
DeleteI love primroses. Thanks for sharing yours.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy!
DeleteI have never even seen a primrose (that I know) in real life! Very pretty. Love the colours.
ReplyDeleteThey are very pretty. We never had them in Florida either. I think they like temperate climates -- not too hot, not too cold.
DeleteThese are so dainty looking and lovely! I think the boss lady is piling it on you as punishment. You'll get the last laugh.
ReplyDeleteShe's asked me to do some things that I'm simply going to stonewall.
DeleteYou're getting old!!!
ReplyDeleteHa! I admit it!
DeleteIs your boss piling on extra work because she knows you will get it done before you leave? I love the primroses.
ReplyDeleteI think she does want me to do some things in advance of leaving but I won't get through all of it. She wants me to weed more nonfiction, for example, but I hate to do that on the way out the door. I feel like it's better for the newer people to do it, and shape the collection as they see fit.
DeleteThis is lovely. I have a friend who plants a ton of these (or has in the past) and they make a wonderful border and such a nice entry to spring!
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