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Time for a Spring Walk About

Lets take a walk about our gardens, yard or patio and see what is coming up or blooming.

I went around my gardens the last few days and everything is looking happy and spring like. Here is what I found in my gardens

Just outside the kitchen door is the well garden and coming up there are the daffodils and the hyacinths, the iris reticulatas are past bloom but in their place are some spring beauties looking very pretty. As I walk toward the pond I can see the daffodils around it and in the country garden too. The tulips are showing and getting ready to bloom to. Out by the barn the hollyhocks are peeking through as are the day lillies. Going through the gate to the veggie garden are more daffs in bloom and the redbud and purple plum are beginning to show bud soon they will be all pretty and pink. The forsythia is getting ready to show their yellow gowns and the grape hyacinths under them will cover their feet in purple shoes. In the veggie garden all is ready for planting in most of the beds the sugar snaps are already in so all is calm there. Turning around and going through the yard toward the front gate the entry garden is looking lovely still have more pruning on the wisteria to do. There are a few crocuses still in bloom and tons of spring beauties covering the ground under the white birch with yellow daffs with orange centers dancing over them. With the sun shining and the birds singing it is a wonderful day to be out and walking about.

So tell me please do, what is growing and showing in your garden this spring? Share with us. Can't wait to hear from you.

Happy Spring Gardening

Dilly, I enjoyed touring your garden and seeing all the wonderful things growing there. Out my front window in the garden and around our tree I see chicken and hens. There are a lot of bulbs starting to grow but can't see any flowers yet. We usually have some daffodils and crocus' ? and lily of the valley in the back. Indoors I see my snapdragons, delphinum, and columbine from the seeds I planted as well as the mystery plant growing wildly from the seed dd brought home from school. Hope you enjoyed seeing them all. You'll have to come back when they actually start blooming. Laureen

Dilly...I will trade you yards

My maple tree has just started to leaf, and the forsythia is full of buds as is the redbud tree. My iris are coming up and should be a short while before they start showing their pretty colored heads. It will be another month at least before the gingko shows any sign of life.

The baby tumbleweed plants are coming up like crazy and I have some sort of weird weed taking over where the tumbleweeds are not! This new weed is short with a small yellow flower....have no earthly idea what it is...but the way things go out here can be sure it is an obnoxious thing. I am starting to clear out an area to try planting some snow-in-summer plants; I understand that they make a good ground cover and will reproduce well. If the Mormon crickets do not invade us this year, maybe they will survive through it.

As you walk out the front door, there are ferns spilling on to the sidewalk as the little buggers throw out new babies, all the time.

Walking to the front there is periwinkle spilling into the street.

Now turn the path to the driveway and you will smell Jasmine before you see it. ...but see it you will, as it is creeping into my neighbor's yard, as she is fond of reminding me . Walk toward the back , if you can get past the pittisporum overgown, along with ivy that almost blocks a path between the shed and fence.

The back yard is soggy and filled with fallen leaves from fruit and avacado trees.

I really must get out there, soon.

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