It's Easter Sunday. Happy Easter! Finally, Spring is upon us. The anticipation of the Summer is here. At the Turf Care Center that means earlier and earlier start times. Soon we'll be arriving at work when most party goers are still making there way home. It's the season of really long days and really really short nights. Excuse me while I just put my head down for just one second.....zzzzzzzzz....I digress. More to the point, it's the season where the air warms up and we reunite with all of the slumbering plants cozy under the soils surface. We've already seen the perky daffodils and tulips welcoming us through the entrance and the woody deciduous shrubs budding into new foliage for the season. I love the bright new red tips of the Photinia shrubs bordering the parking lot. It's my favourite time of the year to traipse around the garden and look for any new discoveries. I've noticed the herbaceous perennials are starting to plump up and are getting ready to put on a show soon. Also, the iris's bordering the main pond are standing on guard and getting ready to bloom. Currently, the young creamy yellow magnolia trees are blooming and timing perfect with the daffodils below them. It's definitely the season of new beginnings and the season for Gardeners to reflect on their designs from the year before.
This year has also seen the genesis of three new garden beds. The finishing touches are just being made to the beds at the #9 hole. They serpentine along the 180 foot walkway adjacent to the west side of the clubhouse. Unfortunately, an irrigation pipe burst at the foot of the main bed the day after planting was completed. The Irrigation tech is waiting for a dry day when his schedule is free to fix the pipe. Then that area will be patched up and replanted. High traffic turf and a heavy sand composition base was placed around the perimeter of the beds last week. The turf was modified from 3 feet to 2 feet. It will require a few planting adjustments to balance out the project. It's very close to being completely completed. Unless of course another pipe bursts or a parade of elephants decides to tromp right through the beds. Those variables aside, it's looking good. I'll follow up with another post soon about the plants in the #9 bed. Enjoy your Easter holiday and I hope you all have some delicious sea salt dark chocolate hidden in your backyard and a cuppa hot early grey tea and a hot cross bun (not the stale grocery store kind, but the extra fluffy ones from the bakery...you know the kind)!
