Spring has sprung in my garden. The flowering shrubs have started and I am actually getting blooming iris this year. Last year there were a few straggly bloomers and I thought "well that's what you get for not digging them up and spacing them out like you know you should". But maybe it was something else. They are blooming several weeks earlier than usual. I will take them anytime they feel like blooming.
These 2 little patches of ever faithful tulips also came up again this year. I don't fully understand how it is that they have bloomed every single year since they were planted (like 10+ years ago), while the tulips and allium bulbs in front have pretty much petered out into nothing.
Hello oak leaf hydrangea. Ever faithful, but I still thank it for doing so well each year.
The amazing golden leaves on the Rising Sun redbud are getting bigger and bigger. That beautiful gold is such a nice contrast to the Japanese Maple on the other side of the front porch.
The Columbine are starting to bloom. I have some returnees that Angie gave me years ago, as well as some from seeds in a little garden in Lincoln City, Oregon.
The very first clematis blossom has appeared and I can see some tiny zinnia seeds starting to burst through the soil.
We are supposed to get lots of rain in the coming few days. I will trust that all these plants don't need me to tell them what to do, and will not worry about them. Instead I will do rainy day spring activities. Whatever those are. But NOT spring cleaning. That seems wrong.
Beautiful happenings in the garden! And absolutely NO cleaning!
Posted by: Amy in Texas | 04/23/2024 at 09:12 PM
Beautiful! How strange to have iris blooming so early!
Posted by: Chris Oliveira | 04/24/2024 at 06:54 AM