Our little rose bush is going full blast.

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Our little rose bush is going full blast.
This looks like it could be some kind of scary monster, but it’s just the growth tip of a flower emerging in one of my planters.
The little rose bush a neighbor donated to the garden last year has just bloomed for the first time this season.
That’s no moon — it’s a giant purple allium!
While I am generally happy to provide the limited funds needed to cover the garden’s operations, neighbors do occasionally donate supplies, for which I am very grateful.
My thanks go out to the following for items received this spring:
I came across this pale spider spinning a web on the fence.
Out on the sidewalk, coating the new planters in linseed oil, and nary a gullible youth to be found to Tom-Sawyer into doing it for me…
We took a trip to Metropolitan Plant & Flower Exchange in Fort Lee and picked up a bunch of bedding flowers to be added to the garden planters and the treebeds here and around the neighborhood, including the following:
Squills, daffodils, crocuses, hyacinths, tulips — nearly all of the flowering bulbs have emerged to put on a show.