Just a few more weeks: daffs and peach tree, below, bloom in April

MARCH is mud season in the Hudson Valley, raw, wet, and long. If I lived here full-time, I’d probably have to shoot myself right about now, but for remembering what’s to come.

After gardening on this property for seven years, I know it’s not long before brown turns to green, and then to an outrageous floral extravaganza.

In the meantime, I sustain myself with pictures from prior seasons (the small ones were taken Tuesday).

If those are globe alliums, above, it must be May

June: catmint, ladies mantle, threadleaf coreopsis, and daylilies, above

The island bed in August, above and below, with rudbeckia, sedum, boltonia, and more

Above, Coneflowers in late summer