I hardly need to rhapsodize about the joy of spring, the gradual return of warmer weather and the insistent power of growing things bursting out of winter’s dormancy. As a gardener and a quilter, I am entranced by the newly emerging colors of bulbs and other spring flowers.
However, every year I remark about the new lime green- color of early growth leaves and needles that I call tender green. It’s a pastel shade, frequently on the chartreuse scale of yellow-green. It tends to persist for varying amounts of time and then morphs into the deeper greens that personify the more mature plants of late spring and summer.