The surprise in taking over someone else's garden, were the flowers. After a cold winter there looked to be nothing else growing other than weeds, and we felt anxious that we should be doing something to plant in the dead spaces. Then there was a week or two of warm weather and spring rains and it took off. The bulbs were first and unidentifiable (to us) leaves produced tulips, jonquils and daffodils.
Then came the fruit trees and blossom.

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