The Garden Fairies Discuss Spring Songs

Garden fairies here.

We are garden fairies and we would like to state right from the beginning that we did not teach the birds to call out “weirdo, weirdo, weirdo” when Carol stepped out into the garden the other morning.

But we did think it was hilarious when they did, and goodness, if you could have seen the look on Carol’s face when she looked around for which bird it was who was calling out to her.

“Weirdo, weirdo, weirdo.”

If only we garden fairies had cameras.

But alas, we do not have cameras so not only did we not get a picture of Carol looking for birds calling her names, but we have to rely on Carol to take whatever pictures get posted on this blog.

We do know that Carol’s friend Dee looked up on line to find out which bird said “weirdo, weirdo, weirdo,” though we already knew, and it was a northern cardinal. To Mr. Red Cardinal we have just one thing to say. “Well done, Mr. Cardinal, well done, indeed!”

But enough about birds and what they say or don’t say when Carol enters the garden. We have other concerns!

What we are most concerned about is we got nearly eight inches of rain over the past week. Seedy and Soddy needed all of us to help make sure the garden didn’t become a pond. (No offense to fishes and frogs, who like ponds…)

But by golly, by Monday afternoon, Carol determined it was dry enough to mow her front lawn, so that’s what she did, after appropriate lawn day opening ceremonies, which we do not have time to describe and which are kind of a secret ceremony anyway. The lawn looks pretty nice, if we do say so ourselves, though in the beginning, Carol had the blade a half-inch too low, but somehow, we got her attention, and before she mowed the main part of the front lawn, she raised the blade up.

Whew, that was a close call.

Of course, Carol has not mowed in the back yet, and for once it has nothing to do with her inherent and certain laziness. It is because she rightly wants the crocus foliage to mature a bit more before she cuts it off. And the longer it is for Easter, the easier it will be to hide eggs in it! Win-win if she can hold off for another week and a half.

In other news, the last few mornings have been quite chilly, as in freezing, but we are garden fairies, we will not panic. All the flowers are just fine and if any aren’t, well, we are garden fairies, there is only so much we can do.

Inside, however, the coat fairies were quite miffed that Carol had to pull out one of her winter coats to wear… not the heavy one for winter-winter, but a decent one for spring-acting-like-winter. Those coat fairies thought they were done for the season, and now their whole routine has been disrupted.

But we are garden fairies, we are coat fairies, we shall persevere.

We are doing a lot right now as you can imagine, because it is spring, so we are going to end this post shortly with a few reports. Granny ‘Gus’ McGarden, who is in charge of The Vegetable Garden Cathedral, is pleased with the peas so far and is also taking good care of the lettuces, etc. Hortense and Honoria have been working like crazy on new spring blooms. They are particularly pleased with the daffodils, grape hyacinths, tulips, star flowers, windflowers, and well, all the flowers. Seedy and Soddy are taking a much-deserved break after all the rain.

And I, Violet GreenPea Maydreams, am busy working with Sweetpea MorningGlory looking for the best hiding places for Easter eggs while tending to all the pansies and violas!

Submitted by:

Violet GreenPea Maydreams, Chief Scribe and Committee Chair for the Development and Furtherment of Easter Egg Hiding Places