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and we're off!!!
Well, at least the perennial and hardy annual seedlings are (no, the cats did not disturb the seedlings on the windowsill -- and, yes, those are most of the seedlings that were on the windowsill). The annual spring compost top-dressing is spread, too, and a bunch of seeds were strewn as well. All that's left is to wait a couple of weeks, plant the tender annuals, and then enjoy. Well, and weed and water and deadhead all summer [g].
It's spring [happy sigh]. And if you want to see what spring looks like in my yard, click .
I wish I could get my neighbors to remove their dead plants and weeds, but at least my side of the bed looks nice. The small bush at the center right is a fairy rose, which doesn't look like much now but will be covered in clusters of tiny pink flowers most of the summer.
The pink groundhugger is aubrieta (as is the purple one in the first picture. The lavender one is creeping phlox, just starting to bloom. Between the creeping phlox and the pink aubrieta are a couple of calendula seedlings. Behind the pink aubrieta is a freshly-planted dianthus. Behind that are some clusiana tulips (see icon for closeup).
The hellebore has been blooming for at least a month. The bleeding heart behind it was barely an inch tall three weeks ago. It will start blooming in another couple of weeks. The bulbs in this region are about three weeks late this year, which is why there's only tulip foliage in the tub 2/3rds of the way through April. The pansies in there with them are doing well, though.
Can't see too much from the distance required to fit the whole bed in, but the blue at the left is grape hyacinths, the yellow in the middle is daffodils (obviously [g]), and the spiky things are iris, which will bloom in about another month. Yes, that's a garden gnome to the far right under the pine bush. His provenance is a very long story. Suffice to say, once the Shasta daisy gets going, he basically becomes invisible.
A slightly closer picture of the right side of the back garden. That's chives in the pot on the stepping stone, lavender dead center front, the old clematis (the one I brought in the tub the pansies are in from my old place -- it produces enormous quantities of purple flowers the size of my hand in May) hanging on the fence, and various seedlings -- snapdragons, linaria, more dianthus, baby blue eyes, hollyhocks, etc.
And now you know what a confetti garden looks like at planting time.
I'm dirty, and I'm happy to be so.
It's spring [happy sigh]. And if you want to see what spring looks like in my yard, click .
I wish I could get my neighbors to remove their dead plants and weeds, but at least my side of the bed looks nice. The small bush at the center right is a fairy rose, which doesn't look like much now but will be covered in clusters of tiny pink flowers most of the summer.
The pink groundhugger is aubrieta (as is the purple one in the first picture. The lavender one is creeping phlox, just starting to bloom. Between the creeping phlox and the pink aubrieta are a couple of calendula seedlings. Behind the pink aubrieta is a freshly-planted dianthus. Behind that are some clusiana tulips (see icon for closeup).
The hellebore has been blooming for at least a month. The bleeding heart behind it was barely an inch tall three weeks ago. It will start blooming in another couple of weeks. The bulbs in this region are about three weeks late this year, which is why there's only tulip foliage in the tub 2/3rds of the way through April. The pansies in there with them are doing well, though.
Can't see too much from the distance required to fit the whole bed in, but the blue at the left is grape hyacinths, the yellow in the middle is daffodils (obviously [g]), and the spiky things are iris, which will bloom in about another month. Yes, that's a garden gnome to the far right under the pine bush. His provenance is a very long story. Suffice to say, once the Shasta daisy gets going, he basically becomes invisible.
A slightly closer picture of the right side of the back garden. That's chives in the pot on the stepping stone, lavender dead center front, the old clematis (the one I brought in the tub the pansies are in from my old place -- it produces enormous quantities of purple flowers the size of my hand in May) hanging on the fence, and various seedlings -- snapdragons, linaria, more dianthus, baby blue eyes, hollyhocks, etc.
And now you know what a confetti garden looks like at planting time.
I'm dirty, and I'm happy to be so.