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 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.
ReplyDeleteIt's difficult to be invested in work when you know you will be leaving very soon. Not long now . . .
ReplyDeleteWhen you can see your exit date looming, life does take on a very different meaning, loving spring in the garden.
ReplyDeleteThe race is almost run...! (Not that I wish to compare you to Pearly Spencer...)
ReplyDeleteI know what happened. She wears jackboots, carries a bullwhip and loves Reeding.
ReplyDeleteAwful 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.
ReplyDeleteImagine the next person next year trying to learn a job and never being able to catch up.
ReplyDeleteI'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!
DeleteI guess it's good you're counting down to the end of library duty!
ReplyDeleteThey 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.
ReplyDeleteEarly spring flowers, a sign of hope for the future.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteYour 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 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.
ReplyDeleteLook at those darling faces of the primroses! I love them for their fearlessness in the face of color!
ReplyDeleteWell, you won't be sorry to retire!
ReplyDeleteI'm so happy to see flowers on blog posts lately as we have none here yet...
The primroses are cheerful and beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThe library pace needs to calm down. You will not miss the library.
Another plant that keeps on giving. Sometimes work can be such a drag. You are lucky, you have an end in sight.
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