da | Marion's Crocuses

I just turned the compost for the first time this year (

melted_snowball usually ends up with this chore). I introduced a big bag of shredded white paper and leftover leaves from last winter... I like turning things into dirt.

Last summer, our neighbours dug up and re-sodded their lawn to replace the bushes and flowers which had been tended for decades by the prior owner. It was all a bit sad, because Marion had lived there for so long and had died the summer before. But the new owners nicely gave all their neighbours lots of notice so we could dig up what we wanted to save. I planted a few things which I hope will start sprouting (and I think I see signs of her crocuses in the back part of our yard, today.)

But- the next door neighbour's lawn is also coming up crocuses. All over. It looks like they didn't remove enough of the dirt, huh? It looks pretty neat to me, though it puts a damper on our neighbour's plans for a "nice clean grass yard" as he told us last year. Unless I'm mistaken, he will need to dig all of them up by hand unless he wants them coming back again and again. Bet he's pissed. As you might guess, my sympathies are elsewhere. Grow, crocuses, grow! :)