"Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie."
--George Herbert

"Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants."
--Dorothy Parker

You might be a romantic, like Herbert. Or, like Parker, you might be a witty cynic. Either way, as Coleridge sees it, "the spring comes slowly up this way." Associated with re-birth, renewal, love, and fertility, spring arrives officially with the vernal equinox, which occurs around the 21st of March. (The word 'vernal' has its roots in the Latin word for 'spring.') During this time the sun crosses the celestial equator in a northerly motion, at which point the length of day and night is nearly equal. (This happens a second time, toward the end of September, when the sun crosses the celestial equator

going north to south; this signifies the start of autumn, hence the autumnal equinox.)
The advent of spring is noticeable instantly: fruit trees begin flowering, magnolia blossoms open, and the gardeners among us begin planting bulbs and seeds in earnest. The web is especially useful during this time of year because there are countless gardening sites and resources that are just a click away. From seed ordering to organic gardening to soil discussion groups, gardening is well-represented on the Internet.
 

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