This flower bed amazes me every year.  Every winter the snow comes off the steeply sloping metal roof in an avalanche, and there was well over four feet of heavily packed snow on this bed a month ago.  Some years there is six feet, and …

 Small signs of spring give me hope – even though it snowed yesterday the new layer melted almost right away, and these early ‘Gypsy Girl’ crocus and Puschkinia don’t show any ill effects.  Puschkinia scilloides var. libanotica, to be exact, goes by the common name of Striped squill, …