Chickadee Gardens

This post is all over the place. Apropos, as the garden is, too. Everything is exploding with life and there are so many directions I could go as far as a blog post. Let's catch up with updates on a couple of small projects and look at my plan for the no-till veggie garden, as well as a few observations in late April. First of all, it has been an unusually dry and warm April up until a few days ago when we received an inch or so of rain. I have a feeling we're in for it this summer with a hot one. Just a feeling. Other observations are that certain plants damaged from the winter, although slow, are making a recovery. A few leptospermums or tea trees are pushing out new growth unexpectedly and so are a couple of ceanothus. Some cistus branches are dying off one by one, but I have a feeling they shall rebound when the heat returns. The phormiums are starting to grow back, though it will be an ugly, long recovery. For the most part, though, spring is bountiful and we enjoy crossin