The World Out My Window

DSC_6448The world out my window this week has been rather busy.

The hummingbirds are visiting the feeder off the front porch. That means it’s time to pull the rest out of storage and spot them around the place.

All of our trees are at some stage in their re-leafing. The Pecans and the red oak are just beginning to show some green.

The azaleas are dressed in their spring finest. I find myself a bit ambivalent about the azaleas. I love the spring show…It’s the first gaudy break in the sameness of color after winter around here. I even like their ever green bushiness the rest of the year. I’ll probably be adding some this year. More as screens than as color statements.

Last week the boss had a couple of days off and we visited Mass Nursery in Seabrook. While wandering around their magnificent collection we happened upon some one gallon Japanese maples…Now I know better than to try and force the trees in my area, but the price was low enough that I had to try one. But now I find myself trying to figure out where to put it so it isn’t fried by June.

The grandkids are underfoot so it’s time to wrap this up.

Gary Boyd

4 thoughts on “The World Out My Window

  1. What can I say? I love Maas Nursery. When they still had all the animals it was even better. My mother saw her first longhorn at Maas.

    I need to get out there and pick up some landscape soil. I use it for my potted plants – works great. The only problem with the place is that every time I go out, I wish I had an acreage and someone to build up all those raised beds I’d want for flowers and veggies!

    1. I discovered Maas back when we lived in Pasadena. I even liked to visit when they opened the storefront in Kemah. Now we make a trip over at least once a year just to wander around and enjoy the color.

      I miss the little roadside nursery along Toddville that’s a city park now. For the life of me I can’t remember the name of the place. We always came away from that one with some super buys.

      Personally, I don’t have the money to make more than one trip a year to Maas no matter how much I enjoy it.

  2. Agree, on that cost factor. I always stand and drool in front of the pots, but I don’t care how beautiful a flower pot is – I’m not paying fifty bucks (or more!) for it!

    1. I have a bit of land to fill, and I stand in shock at the cost of a lot of their plants, too. I know I have a “Southern Living” garden ideal working on a Kmart garden budget…

      What ever happened to all of the backyard nurseries run by folks who had green thumbs and just liked to grow things? I know I habituated those folks little shops for most of my life. I want to say that’s how Maas started…and how I found them way back when…

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