Snow on the Daffodils

Sunrise over the Manor House, April 10, 2020. Yoshino Cherries in bloom with a pink cloud background, and in the foreground, fittingly, an heirloom variety of apple tree known as "Snow."

There is an old adage, "It always snows on the daffodils."

Weeping cherry tree and snowy daffodils near the Gardener's Cottage.

I am not sure the origin of this wisdom, but snow on the daffodils is something most springs in Ohio you can count on.

For one thing, daffodils have a very long blooming season: the earliest arriving sometimes in February, with a continued progression of bloom more or less through April.

And most Aprils, we can count on one or more big snows.

Manor House viewed through the Rose Garden, April 10, 2020.

Including Good Friday, April 10, 2020.

We awoke to several inches of light fluffy snow. And at sunrise, pink clouds over the Manor House cleared way for briefly blue skies.

Rising sun illuminates the Birch Allee, April 10, 2020

It snowed on the daffodils.

And cherries.

And forsythia.

And early rhododendrons.

A memorable Spring morning in the gardens, with ever changing skies and our garden landscape cast into a new relief.

Snow on Japanese Quince outside the Conservatory.

"King of Thomkins County" heirloom apple tree in the Great Garden.

Snow covered Yoshino cherry blossoms above the well.

Christmas Spruce viewed down a lane of Mackintosh apple trees.

Birch Allee

Rhododendron in the Japanese Garden.

Blue skies over Pleasure Drive.

Snowy butterflies and tulips outside the butterfly house.


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