Prometteurs de Beaux Jours & Garden update...

I'll begin this post with some news about "the-only-sweet-pea-in-the-garden... If you follow my Facebook page, you might remember that this harsh winter only spared a single one of my Autumn-seedlings Sweet-Peas... Here is a pic of the proud survivor a few weeks ago. I love to sow a few Sweet-Pea in autumn as they usually start flowering by May the next year, so a few months before the ones sown in March-April. And it's never too early for this:

but "Quelle Horreur!!!" yesterday morning when I discovered the poor fellow... a slug, an horrible slug had made its way to the Little! and almost ate a pair of leaves! "Non Madame, this can't go on like this!! Leave him alone!" ... so he is now surrounded by a circle of sand, surrounded by a circle of crushed egg shells (thank you Jacob for that trick!) surrounded by a circle of ashes surrounded by a circle of copper and I am seriously considering digging a moat around all this! I want my early flowers!


Far from this war, in a corner of Gabrielles'garden, are appearing all these beautiful "Prometteurs de Beaux Jours"... Galanthus, Eranthis, Helleborus... promises of better days.

Gabrielle utilisait souvent l'expression "prometteurs de beaux jours"... mais pas tout à fait dans ce sens-ci. La sagesse paysanne manie bien l'ironie. Le prometteur n'est pas des plus honnêtes et les "Beaux Jours" finissent toujours pas arriver...
Pas d'ironie avec ces prometteurs-ci! Rien d'ambigu ni d'hasardeux. Aux perce-neiges succèdent toujours le printemps, les groseillers sanguins et les phorsythias...
Mes "Prometteurs de Beaux Jours" ne mentent jamais.