{"id":6742,"date":"2012-03-20T22:09:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T05:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=6742"},"modified":"2012-03-20T22:09:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T05:09:12","slug":"spring-garden-our-brilliant-bursting-buzzing-front-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/spring-garden-our-brilliant-bursting-buzzing-front-yard\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Spring in Our Brilliant, Bursting, Buzzing Front Yard"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

When I think of March, I think of mud. Half frozen, slurpy, messy, car-stuck-in-the-road mud.<\/p>\n

That’s because I grew up in Michigan, where March is the most unnerving month of the year. One day it’s warmish and the world smells like spring. The next day the thermometer drops, it’s winter again and odors vanish in the cold.<\/p>\n

But that was then, and this is here.<\/p>\n

I live in California now, where spring peaks, not in May, but March. What’s more, in my part of California — the coast — just about any flower from any part of the world\u00a0can thrive and bloom, and when\u00a0it does\u00a0it’s\u00a0often during this month.<\/p>\n

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One day last fall when I was too busy to even\u00a0gather a few chrysanthemum blossoms from my garden,\u00a0Jillian Steinberger, the Garden Artisan, came by and planted a bunch of annuals from Annie’s Annuals in Berkeley. I was too\u00a0preoccupied with Thanksgiving and Christmas preparations to even ask what she’d planted.\u00a0 I thought I’d\u00a0let her surprise me.<\/p>\n

Jillian\u00a0called in February to ask if I’d noticed anything pretty and colorful popping in my my yard. No, I hadn’t. I reminded her that our\u00a0yard is a bit on the shady side.<\/p>\n

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But by last week the little patch of hillside that is our front yard\u00a0had come alive with color.\u00a0And today, on\u00a0the vernal equinox, things are\u00a0blooming and buzzing with life, as you can see.<\/p>\n

To see what became of those proud wind poppies, go to “In My Rain-Battered Garden<\/a>.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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I live in California where spring peaks in March. And by last week the little patch of hillside that is our front yard was alive with color. Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[34,472,277,698,88,699],"class_list":["post-6742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","tag-dont-miss","tag-garden","tag-jillian-steinberger","tag-michigan-weather","tag-nature","tag-poppy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}