If you live in an area where the winter is cold and wet like here in Utah, I am sure you are looking forward to this special time of the year as much as I am. As the cold dark winter days finally start to disappear, everyone is thinking about the return of warm weather and bright sunshine. It is early March and while I am writing this article, I pause to look out my window. It is snowing and blowing and the last thing it looks like is Spring. Spring, to many people, is visions of Crocus peeking their heads out of the last vestiges of snow or the scent of fragrant Daffodils and Hyacinths filling the air as they burst open in a riot of colorful blooms.
Birds fill the air with their chirps and songs as they too celebrate the changing of the seasons.
Life returns to the land when Mother Earth throws back the blanket of snow after a long sleep. Animals that have been asleep all winter hear the call and begin to stir from their dens. The first sign of spring in my greenhouse is my turtles waking up and following me around my greenhouse asking to be fed. Many of my orchids are showing a very definite sign of spring. The flower spikes of my Phalaenopsis and the Paphiopedilums are loaded with buds ready to open in a display of beautiful blooms.