A Start

My first day in the yard, yeah.

This a good day to plant the Daylily given out at the Philadelphia Flower Show. The soil's not frozen and it 2 more days till spring.

The ground may not be frozen, but the water in this covered container was. It melted by the time I left the yard hours later. I spied a neighborhood cat drinking from the container one night. Birds, squirlles, and raccoons also probably found the water. God sure takes care of all of his creatures.

Time to start cleaning up the yard. Prune the shrub, cut dead foliage, and remove fall leaves from the flower beds. As always,  removing chicken wire from bulbs already stuck in the wire.

Autumn fern is some where under there.

My hydrangea may actually survive another year. I see green buds. I'm excited since I have a poor history with them and they're not actually a hard shrub to grow.

All I can think of is the big spider and webs all over this last summer while I was pruning it today.

Peony

Chives did well over the winter.

As always I wait too late and bulbs grow through the wire. Now I have to get them out.

Cleaned the leaves from containers. I pulled strawberries in the fall but I was happy to see a tiny strawberry seedling.

She'll look better when she gets new leaves.

Looking better. On another day I'll leaf mold and mulch. I removed most but not all the chicken wire because it'll break some large bulbs that have already formed heads. I'll have to come out another day with a shard small pruner to cut the wire from around them. In the fall, larger chicken wire.

Autumn fern.

My little rose bush.

While out front. Is that still snow? Yes. 

Still burning wood and can't put away the shovels yet.

It's almost gone. Used all the wood stack up outside and most of this rack.

I have to clean up the porch.