March continues to amaze us.  Today the first tulip bloomed.  It's not much of a tulip, just a short scraggly thing,but a promise of more to come.

The daffodils are here, too.  Every year I have around a thousand daffodils in the back yard and that show is about to begin.  People drive by my house just to see them all.

The gardens now are filled with the scent of hyacinths.  It is too dry for them to have filled out completely, but they still do their major job, which is to fill the neighborhood with their sweetness.

Hyacinths can be overpowering, so I never put them in a bouquet. I did that once for a friend and she said she had to get up in the middle of the night and throw the hyacinths out the door.  But outside they are lovely, bringing spring to the Mathom Gardens.

We could use rain.  The Pasque flowers should be a deep purple, but this year they look gray.

The rains are forecast for tomorrow.  The Pasque flowers will get their color and more flowers will bloom.

And all of this in March.