Watch your step!

Watch your step, look around.

The first of the colchicums has just been found.

I stepped outside early this morning to begin the third day of my 30-day challenge to spend at least an hour in the garden every morning rescuing it from all the weeds, and I felt just the slightest bit of chill in the air. It wasn’t enough of a chill to send me running back inside for a jacket… just enough for me to notice how pleasant it is to be out in the garden early in the day.

I’ve made decent progress on weeding in just three days. I’ve yanked out lots of mulberry weed which is an invasive weed from China that Dee and I talked about on our podcast episode this week. She has it too.

I’ve also pulled out a good amount of nutsedge, oxalis, and Japanese spurge. Plus beggarticks, which I thought I’d finally banished from my garden years ago, but it is back again. Pull it out, pull it out. Don’t let it go to seed.

But enough of this weed talk!

I also saw some late blooming white lilies when I was cutting back honeylocust suckers and redbud tree seedlings.

I think this is one of the Easter lilies I planted out last spring after Easter. I was surprised to see it blooming—maybe re-blooming—so late in the year, but happy to have been out in the garden to see it.

That’s another good thing about this 30-day challenge to be in the garden every single morning. I’m less likely to miss flowers like these.

Watch your step, look around.

You never know what will be found.

(Yes, as a matter of fact, I did lose track of a gardening knife out in the garden yesterday. I think I left it somewhere in the Vegetable Garden Cathedral. Or that’s where it was taken from me by mischievous garden fairies. I’ll have to look around for it tomorrow morning.)

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