In honor of the miraculous month of March, I am sending you a lovely bunch of daffodils. Yes, miraculous might be a strong word, but when I consider that a week ago we had snow on the ground, and the soil was so frozen it might as well have been asphalt, it certainly feels miraculous. The sun came out, the snow melted, the daffodils bloomed, and I spent a whole day in the garden. On my to-do list was, of course, weeding. Weeding always comes first, and I cleaned out my beds,

Spring already? Well, I may be jumping the gun a little, but a day of sunshine can have that effect. It was cold, the ground was frozen for some of the day, so I started off by pruning and removing the dead stalks of last year's perennials. A lot of gardeners tell you to do this in the fall, and while this makes a nice, tidy look for the winter, I prefer to do the clean up in February for a couple of reasons. The birds will feed off the seeds in the cold winter months, and w