Outdoors

Nature Notes Spring broke with a passion. The soaring temperatures burgeoned the forsythias, the Russian olives and honeysuckles popped open their leaf buds, swamp maples are awash with drooping festoons of crimson flowers. It is the season for reproduction. Notes From Madoo A letter to those several friends who are beginning to garden for the first time: I am concerned that you have not yet spent that necessary year simply patrolling the site, getting accustomed to the pitch of the earth, where shadows go, where precise and vague boundaries are, how dominant near or distant views are.