Episode 27 | The Bloom Gap

It's May. You planted for pollinators. You went to the plant sales. You did everything right. So why does your garden look like nothing but green?What you're experiencing has a name: the bloom gap. That in-between stretch after the spring ephemerals finish and before the summer perennials take over. It's not failure. It's a pause. And nature has been doing it on purpose for thousands of years.In this episode: a yellow sign on a train platform, an Eastern Towhee 60 miles apart on consecutive days, a wood thrush singing from the canopy for the first time this year, and why the Eastern red columbine blooms exactly when it does. For someone very specific who just got back from Central America.Your garden knows what it's doing. This episode will help you trust it.Audio recordings of the wood thrush provided by xeno-canto.org:CitationPaul Driver, XC771930. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/771930.LicenseCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Get full access to Flutter By Meadows at flutterbymeadows.substack.com/subscribe