Strolling Into Spring With LeafMould Every year we start our stroll into Spring as early as late January. Every January almost without fail you will see snowdrops start to flower.The earth is starting its motions of generation and re-generation. Something causes these dainty but tough bulbs to send up Life.Your calendar still declares it is Winter but something is "occurring". Naturally many bulbs ally themselves to trees.This is because of the protection supplied by the fallen leaves and the fertility of the soil caused by previous Leaf Fall!Those leaves have broken down to the richest natural substance on earth,LeafMould. Those early snowdrops have tapped into the rhythms of the Earth and have sensed the Earth's Spring. So may people nowadays are totally detached from Nature ,they miss so much.How many even notice the tiny flowers pushing through the Earths blanket of soil.How many even notice the trees they pass.I confess when I was young I too saw nothing. My mind was closed to all around me. Then I got married and children appeared, not necessarily in that order!I must confess.I had a garden and for me it should not just be a patch of weeds pretending to be grass. My mind strayed back to a past conversation with equally young and nature blind work mates.Somehow we whilst consuming alcohol in some Public House talked about what type of plants we liked. I remember seeing in my "minds Eye', quite uniform blobs of various shades of green. These must have been small evergreen shrubs I had passed but not really seen in customers gardens as we erected scaffolding. Shamefully many of those plants would have been badly damaged if it was in our way. So my garden started with small uniform though not necessarily evergreen shrubs,'cause they ten to be expensive. Bulbs being inexpensive went in with them and snowdrops were amongst those. Then trees became my passion and from there an interest in Natures treasure. LeafMould
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