Weird Spring

This winter didn't feature sustained cold, and it kept reappearing with little March snow showers. Most early bloomers came out late this year. The sweet viburnum is just now ready to bloom, and the tulips started on the 9th, I think.

I planned to skip cutting back the variegated monkey grass this year, but the plants in the bed by the smoke bush looked so terrible, I went ahead and did them all, late (March 30, maybe?).

And then there's the sewer line work we had done. They were able to run new line through old and therefore did not have to take down the back steps, the willow oak, the patio. But the workers did dig a huge trench through the side of the lawn. They kindly set aside the hydrangeas I had moved over there to the right, but not plants. I discovered some of the catmint and put it back in the ground. I thought I found a clump of the lily of the valley, from Joy -- but now that she's given me freshly thinned sets, I remember that they do not come from bulbs. Surely I'd recognize onion grass bulbs, right?! Worried about the peonies.