wisteria? now?

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OK. You've got to be kidding?

I'm really not a gardener. I'm more in tune with the birds; their comings and goings, their cries and whispers, that sort of thing. And when it comes to native wildflowers, I know a thing or two, but cultivated flowers? Yikes! Well, I live in the woods. Oaks and hickories and 'possums. That's what I know.

But, I ask you: Should wisteria be blooming the third week of March? Doesn't it normally bloom in May? Have I misremembered? Isn't it an arbor vine imported from Asia and doesn't it like those warm days before Memorial Day weekend.

It seems like everything that normally blooms from late March to late May is all in flower at once. The pollen count must be off the chart. No wonder my head is pounding. But, at least, I have something pretty to look at.

At this rate, we'll be picking ripe apples in late June and celebrating Thanksgiving—the bounty of the harvest—sometime before Labor Day.

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