We have these too… like miniature pansies. Self seeding apparently, cos we had them in one of our handrail planters last summer and this year they’re in all 4!
Seeing all those blooms really lifts my spirit. I am so sick of brown and white. My crocuses all bloomed at once this year. Usually, they bloom near the house first and then out in the garden later. I have some bleeding heart that is growing on a bank where I had tossed some cut stems a few years back. The mother plant has died so I need to get someone to move a few patches of them where I can see them.
Tuesday after logging off from work I went out and cleaned up the old stalks from a couple of the flower beds.Some daffodils (or narcisi) were spent from the rain earlier in the week, but these still looked good by the roadside The forsythia was in full bloom The little red things are peony shoots starting to peek above the soil
Here are tulips that escaped the teeth of voles There had been a whole row of tulips all along the house. The fact this tulip still exists this year, gives me hope that I've gained some ground in my battle against them.
I've never met a tulip that I could keep at either house. Chipmunks and squirrels love them. Neighbor across the street actually had some that had been there for ages. When he went to a nursing home,, I dug some of them up and put them in a pot on my back porch (they were still blooming so weren't ready to dry). The next day they were destroyed by the rodents.
Yesterday I did some work in the gardens. I cleaned up the stalks from the driveway garden. Doesn't have any blooms yet, but it sure looks nicer than it did I had actually cleaned up all the peony/iris/day lily stalks and stuff the other day in the roadside garden. Didn't take a full picture, but this is one picture I did take that gives an idea as to how it looked I grabbed fifteen 3 c/ft bags of natural cedar mulch yesterday. Before and after of the roadside garden (took 5 bags of mulch) I had also cleaned up the south garden the other day. Before and after 8 bags of mulch were laid I'm always amazed at how much nicer everything looks with fresh mulch
Even though it has been cool and gloomy this past week, it is really starting to look like spring around here. Flowering almond buds Fancy hyacinth Some of the creeping phlox is just starting to bloom. In another week or 2 this will be amazing by the driveway. 2nd pic is in the south side garden This English primrose is easy to miss since it hugs the ground. It has been there for 8-9 years and never spreads. I can't believe the original label is still there, much less that it is still readable. Close up of one of the Tahiti daffodils in the roadside garden. Then the whole line that people see as they are driving down the street. If you know what you are looking for you can see lupine leaves as well as peony flora that is growing fast
The daffodils are blooming and the lupine are up in the bed. We put down 40 bags of mulch on the 5 flower beds over the last week or two.
