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Hello, friends of Madras Garden Depot! We have been busy getting ready for a new year in the garden. The good news is that we had a very mild winter but now spring is very slow in arriving. It keeps hesitating, dragging its feet with every temperature fluctuation, raindrop and gust of wind. Fortunately one of the benefits of this crazy,…
“Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.” Lewis Grizzard Being a good gardener, but a wretched typist, I make doubly sure that each of my cold fingers carefully touches my keyboard so I don’t have to go back and make (yet another) correction…yes, it’s very, very cold out, but…
….And the good news is that we had a very gradual fall with temperatures that gently eased our plants into a nice dormant state. Hopefully, if you noticed snow dumping off of roofs and piling up on perennials, vines or shrubs, that you attended to them before too much damage ensued. If not, be aware…