Furious

Things are really moving now. I was out contemplating the idea of blackness yesterday:

when I turned around and noticed a huge spike on the Beschorneria rigida, out of nowhere.

You are just going to take my word for how stupendously exciting this is. Until it blooms. Then you will see. And then I turned around again and the first Fritillaria meleagris appeared.

Complete with aphid, of course. Anyway, I'm starting to get excited.