Perennials Up From Their Winter Graves

The perennials seemed dead a month or so ago, but gradually life springs forth. The miracle of resurrection displayed every spring in my garden never fails to excite me.  The earth cradled life through the long hard winter, protecting it.

And now we see the evidence that it was never really dead, only resting.

Here are a few shoots you may be seeing now if your garden is in a cold zone.

Bleeding hearts are popping up in my garden dressed in fringes of red.

Autumn Crocuses have a lovely leafy show in spring and then the flowers pop up in fall.

 Here is one you will probably recognize.



I'm always happy to see that my delphiniums are back.

But this one has me stumped.  It's four or five feet tall, it smells marvelous like a heliotrope, and I was told that it was one,

but I can't find any pictures of heliotropes with leaves like these.


The garden is so full of promise right now, and I am out there daily, even on the odd days when the snow comes back to annoy us.

I worry over every spring flower that has to fight for its life, during the late snows, but I rejoice with every new shoot that pops up through the cold ground.

It's great that resurrection day happened in spring.  We are constantly seeing reminders of its reality as we wander through our gardens.