Today's seasonal first

Overnight, in the wake of the good recent rains, up in profusion, although so far in one location only, are leaves from an old pot of paperwhite narcissus forced into bloom indoors and then later dumped out carelessly onto the ground years ago. There are several spots in the pleasure grounds where we unthinkingly did this at one time or another, and they've all consistently done better at reproducing themselves and blooming without fail than practically anything deliberately set into the ground. We're also seeing more and more anemone leaves every day, both wild and cultivated.