{"id":7383,"date":"2019-04-09T20:50:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T20:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siteandinsight.com\/?p=7383"},"modified":"2019-04-09T20:50:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T20:50:48","slug":"plus-ca-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/plus-ca-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Plus \u00e7a change&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This winter feels interminable. Surely in earlier years daffodils have been blooming by now, snowdrops long gone.<\/p>\n<p>Well, no. It&rsquo;s true that in some years snowdrops have appeared by this date.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7384\" style=\"width: 1363px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7384\" class=\"wp-image-7384 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/April-1-2016-1-of-1.jpg\" alt=\"April 1, 2016 (1 of 1)\" width=\"1353\" height=\"1028\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">These snowdrops were shivering in the cold on April 1, 2016.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Crocus have bloomed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7387\" style=\"width: 3658px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7387\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7387\" src=\"http:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/April-4-2010-1-of-1.jpg\" alt=\"These crocus were lighting up the hillside on April 4, 2010.\" width=\"3648\" height=\"2736\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">These crocus were lighting up the hillside on April 4, 2010.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pulmonaria have added their touch of colour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7394\" style=\"width: 2394px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7394\" class=\"wp-image-7394 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/April-4-2010-1-of-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"April 4, 2010+ (1 of 1)\" width=\"2384\" height=\"1842\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This pulmonaria or lungwort was blooming on April 4, 2010.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But it is also true that this April is better than some.\u00a0\u00a0A lot better.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7389\" style=\"width: 5194px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7389\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7389\" src=\"http:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/April-7-2013-1-of-1.jpg\" alt=\"This photo from April 7 2013 shows a very wintery garden.\" width=\"5184\" height=\"3456\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo from April 7, 2013 shows a very wintery garden.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last year in early April, the crabapple all\u00e9e was snow-free and the central path, still unseeded, a straight line of mud.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7385\" style=\"width: 3782px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7385\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7385\" src=\"http:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/April-2-2018-1-of-1.jpg\" alt=\"Snow lingered in the ditches alongside the all\u00e9e and the path was straight mud... we seeded it last summer and this year it should be green.\" width=\"3772\" height=\"2385\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snow lingered in the ditches alongside the crabapple all\u00e9e\u00a0on April 2, 2018.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This year on exactly the same date, patchy snow still covered the field around the crabapple all\u00e9e. But at least\u00a0 this year the path will soon be green.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7386\" style=\"width: 4795px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7386\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7386\" src=\"http:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/April-2-2019-1-of-1.jpg\" alt=\"I took this photo a week ago, on April 2. It looks much the same now.\" width=\"4785\" height=\"3190\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7386\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I took this photo a week ago, on April 2. It looks much the same now.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Comparing photos from different years gives me hope. The photo below from a few years ago shows magnolia in the Lower Garden in full bloom on April 23. And that&rsquo;s only two weeks away.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7397\" style=\"width: 5194px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7397\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7397\" src=\"http:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/April-23-2012-1-of-1.jpg\" alt=\"Spring came early in 2012.\" width=\"5184\" height=\"3456\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spring came early in 2012.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the weather, though, these guys will still be hanging around, looking like they own the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7393\" style=\"width: 3777px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7393\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7393\" src=\"http:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/untitled-1-of-1.jpg\" alt=\"Here's looking at you, kid.\" width=\"3767\" height=\"2753\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luckily deer don&rsquo;t like barberry bushes. Otherwise those shrubs would be stubs.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Plus \u00e7a change, plus c&rsquo;est la m\u00eame chose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This winter feels interminable. Surely in earlier years daffodils have been blooming by now, snowdrops long gone. Well, no. It&rsquo;s true that in some years snowdrops have appeared by this date. &nbsp; &nbsp; Crocus have bloomed. &nbsp; &nbsp; Pulmonaria have added their touch of colour. &nbsp; &nbsp; But it is also true that this April&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,21,346],"tags":[749,51,112,132],"class_list":["post-7383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glen-villa","category-plants","category-quotations","tag-crabapple-allee","tag-glen-villa-gardens","tag-spring","tag-spring-flowers","category-38","category-21","category-346","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}