Spring Arrives

Marilyn's Photo of the Week We have a few scenes of spring today.  This pretty cherry tree is on Yates Street in St. Catharines.  It is an historic district with houses from an era  of grace and proportion.  The street runs along Twelve Mile Creek so traces a winding path, giving it further charm. Our next picture comes from Charles Daley Park - with our boat on that floating horizon in the distance.  The willow trees are just sprouting their green leaves. Finally, a picture of something that we don't appreciate dandelions much.  They want to take over grassy plots and this is a perfect example of a public park with its lawn awash in yellow blooms.

Trillium Virus

My earliest Trilliums are blooming in the garden - the white and dark red ones.  When I visited Marion Jarvie's garden last week, she said she has a success of Trilliums blooming between the end of April and the middle of June.  The last to bloom are the Luteums - spotted leaves and upright yellow flowers. These Trilliums are very pretty, but the stripes of green mean that they are virused.  If these plants aren't removed, the entire forest of Trilliums will eventually die of the virus.  So make sure you don't buy one of these thinking that it is an interesting variety.  It will kill the other trilliums in your garden.