this morning in the garden (and earlier)

Dark grey light this morning as we may be getting more rain. We are finally in a wet weather pattern after being too dry for the last few weeks. The lilac clematis is in bloom on the arbor it shares with the honeysuckle vine which is getting close to bloom.

Baptisia and a peek of white allium in the border. The tiny white blooms are an unknown  plant that sprinkles the border each season. We like it and it is not invasive. This border does well considering it competes for water and light with the maples.

 Andy uses the low bird bath as his favorite outdoor water source. He ignores his bowl. I gave him a home haircut with the clippers. Will improve my technique hopefully the next time! A little bit choppy, he is not getting compliments any more! But he ran around like a happy crazy dog after the haircut, he always reacts that way to a lighter coat.

Dark morning so far.

Lots of blooms still on the dogwoods.

Everything is filling out, obviously we like the full look! Lots of plant variety.

Lilac ornamental tree next to the front porch.

Hawthorn trees in bloom, pretty but stink the day the blooms open, really disgusting smell! We planted them for their fall berries twelve years ago not knowing about the smell. Took these on a sunny morning a few days ago.

Back to today.

We just planted five Snowball Viburnums in place of a group of Red Twigged dogwoods that were fine but not exciting and did not create enough shade to dominate thistles that come up in this sunny front bed. They will be gorgeous and big one day. Daylilies, pachysandra, ivy and limelight hydrangeas (further up the hill) are its companions.

Eden's Perfume peonies are the most fragrant peony ever! These are placed next to the side yard basement 

patio. They are scenting the inside of the house beautifully with several bouquets. They also have a very long bloom time.

I took this a few days ago before the peonies opened. We added a Japanese maple to the basement patio bed at the base of the hill.

Our little froggies ( Green Frogs) are adorable. Took these the other day when we had sun.

The two clumps of yellow flag iris in the pond are up and lovely!

Tell me, what's blooming in your garden or neighborhood?

Thanks for visiting!

Cindy

in the garden this morning

The backyard woods beds are full of brunnera. Larger daffodils have faded from the back woods beds.

The delicate daffodil varieties are the last to bloom. So many of these have come from big mixed bags from Home Depot or Costco, we do not really know what we have. Need to research and figure it out, so many are lovely.

The Solomon's Seal shoots have broken though and have finally naturalized, lots more this year.

Deer watch.

Patio crabapple getting ready to pop.

First frog couple of the season have laid their string of eggs in the water.

Japanese maple opening.

Love the River Birch bark.

First trillium opened, hope to see a few more.

View from kitchen door, we will bring out cushions and umbrellas today and plant the herbs in the tiered planter.

Great Mary's Bells and Brunnera

Dicentra, Pachysandra and Brunnera

Celandine Poppy up close among Sweet Woodruff, these are all over and also finally naturalizing.

Muscari, Brunnera and pansies.

Blue everywhere!

Crabapple blossoms at front of house are perfuming our bedroom. 

Kwanza Cherry tree about to pop in front yard.

What's in your garden this morning?

Thanks for visiting!

Cindy

this morning in the garden

Another cool night last night with frost on the ground this morning. The Muscari bulbs are popping up everywhere because that is where we have them planted...everywhere!

The Hellebores are still here, lots of glare this morning showing up in the photos.

The Honeysuckle and Clematis arbor is filling in.

The Japanese Maple at this end of the pond is leafing out.

This season has been the best in our twelve years here, daffodils have been up for several weeks!

Foliage of the wood anemone which bloomed last week.

Sweet Woodruff has popped but not flowering yet.

 Andy looking serene, his serious face. An old man at the park asked me why my dog was depressed the other day. Huh? "Why do you say that?" "Well, he is not smiling and looks sad". "I don't think he can continually smile"!

 Brunnera blooms before it reaches its full height.

Celadine poppies are blooming throughout the woods.

We have the hardest time with Dicentra, this one is hardy but we have had many fail over the years here. In southern Ohio where we used to live, they were completely reliable.

 A Dog Toothed Violet in bloom but still closed from the night.

 Daffodils still up in driveway side beds.

 These are some of the only Bluebells we have (foliage in the front of bed in photo below). They do not naturalize in this climate like they did in Southern Ohio, which has been disappointing for us as they are one of our  favorite spring flowers. We had to finally edge the sloped beds on the side and front yards with rocks because we have washouts after heavy rainfalls. We fought it for years but finally succumbed. Everything stays in place now.

 The lonely Yellow Magnolia that we planted last year that the deer severely damaged in the winter. We discovered it too late and burlapped it. It is budding now but less than half the size it was.

Husband clipped the heck out of the Akebia arbor, it will fill in in no time. Mother Robin made a nest on the left and used a piece of plastic you can just barely see on the left.

View of both arbors, creating the "living room" of the patio.

The Yellow Flag Iris coming in, we have it planted at both sides of the pond. Tiered planter waiting for its herbs, that is the only place we can find for it where it receives enough sun and is convenient to easily reach from the kitchen.

Are you working in your garden today? We are awaiting a delivery of mulch and more rocks and a forecast for the next week of warmth and sun!  

I finally finished painting the bookshelves but have not finished purging the books yet, will post later. Took a long time because we decided the white was too stark for the rest of the house and ended up with the mushroom color that is on the walls (even though the white looked so fresh and clean and brought light to the hallway ;o( ). Will post photos later.

Thanks for visiting !

Cindy