What an absolute glorious weekend!!! Warm, sunny, a light breeze, and most of yesterday spent out in the garden with a bit more clean-up, prep and a planning on where I might like to plant the incoming additions this year like our favorites of the Cassia and Datura Ballerina and others. I have also decided to go back to a potted herb garden. They did so-so in the ground, but not sure I picked the best location for the herb garden. Much time spent outside, even enjoyed our lunch outside yesterday. I even cursed out one of the squirrels for chewing up one of the new birdfeeders. The warm temps this week brought about much surprise, delight and color! Much needed. It seems the daffs, tulips, and one of our favorites of spring, the Hellebore all came to fruition, another week and the hyacinths and magnolia will be open...and then a long line of flowering trees next.
I so enjoy your sharing these glimpses into your gardens. I can almost envision Claude M. setting up his easel and painting away. Such an array of rich, vibrant colors and shapes.
ReplyDeleteIt's been a glorious second week of spring already...I just hope it doesn't pass by to quickly.
DeleteDamn default to anonymous!!!
ReplyDeleteWe've got the trees in bloom, the azaleas lighting up, the popcorn bush covered in flowers, and a gorgeous pink dogwood bringing color to the front yard!
ReplyDeleteOur flowering trees will start in another week I suspect, if it stay warm like this. Our weeping cherry is getting buds already.
DeleteOh I see those somniferum seeds, you naughty thing. Everything looks GLORIOUS! You have chosen well, grasshopper!
ReplyDeleteI'm so hoping they take and bring forth some flowers. When they do look for your invite to the Opium Den Party!
DeleteWhat riotous, gorgeous colours you have in your garden, Maddie! And I didn't know that magnolias emerge from such furry pods... their scent must be intoxicating. The snow has almost melted here again, the sun is out and it's only -4 Celsius -- woo hoo, that's BBQ weather!
ReplyDeleteOnly the Hyacinth magnolia tree has those buds...the regular magnolia tree has similar buds, but bigger and smooth. They must have shaved! It was 84 degrees here yesterday. They also don't have a strong scent like the regular Mags!
DeleteMy bulbs are coming up and the daffs are in bloom. Spring is on its way.
ReplyDeleteGlorious pictures to be sure!!!!! I love Puschkinia and hellebore, sometimes called Lenten Rose. The one I have here is doing better than the one I had at the house. Those wildflowers are really going to make your existing wildflower garden spectacular this year I bet. I love this time of year.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely gorgeous, sweetpea! Every year I think I plant bulbs (ok, you know I mean I'll ask the MITM to do it) and every Fall I forget to plan(t) for Spring! I think I will make a real effort to make it so for next year! xoxo
ReplyDeleteHere's a tip for you Savy. Plant a potted bulb garden. Get terra cotta pots, fill them with dirt, and place bulbs in as many as you can fit, push into the dirt and then cover with dirt. Once they bloom it looks glorious, and then once their done, and the stems and greens turn brown, snip them off and store the pots away for next spring. No need to plant more or worrying about digging them up. I have a set of potted bulbs I do this with every spring. Once done, they go to the potting shed, and I bring others out for annuals.
DeleteMother Natures House??? All beautiful my friend. Hellebores are among my favorites. Daffodils so bright and cheery. Not much blooming here in Ptown yet...a few colts foot, buds on the maples, snowdrops. Bulbs poking up a couple of inches.
ReplyDeleteHellebores one the first behind crocus to bloom.
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ReplyDeleteYayyyyy Spring!!! I love the wall planter.
It's all so beautiful Mistress. I adore grape hyacinths. I also love the glass Bumble bee, how cute. Here currently is a sea of daffodils, many color combinations, as well as Butter and Eggs, a century-old, doubled variety. Also prominently blooming are hyacinths, forsythia, periwinkle, violets, and Bartlett pear.
ReplyDeleteThe fat glass bumblebee!
ReplyDeleteI knew you'd love that.
DeleteSo very beautiful. It does all of our hearts good to see the beauty of early spring emerging in your gardens. Keep posting the beauty that is all around your home it does more for us than you would ever know. Thanks again.
ReplyDeleteStunning blooms from your garden love love love. We don't get to see many of these out west here.
ReplyDeleteThis is my kind of post!
ReplyDeleteCan you believe that it took me until last week, from gardening here for 42 years, to plant a magnolia????
I've chosen "Susan". I don't know anyone called Susan but it it such a beautiful flower.
Your seed packets are a work of art. You could frame them. Ours are very utilitarian.
Happy gardening. Xx
Yay! I hope it will bring you joy in the spring. The neighborhood magnolia here are giants compared to our little hyacinth magnolia. Such pretty trees, and once bloomed, they last about a week if you're lucky, provided no strong gales blown the petals off. I got the same packets of seed last years and they did wonderfully! Your right about the seed packets too. Aren't they pretty?
DeleteI love these photos!
ReplyDeleteMy mother passed away when I was 13 (I'm 63 now). Last year would have been her 100th birthday (April 24), and to honor her, I planted a Star Magnolia on her birthday. I've been watching the buds filling in the past weeks, and the flowers about to pop out of their husks. I make a point to go out and talk to her at couple of times a week. I love Spring.
What a touching tribute to make. Was the star magnolia a favorite of hers? I'm the same with roses. My maternal grandmother adored her roses and so I have many like her.
DeleteI think she just loved plants; I was really too young to have paid much attention to her gardening. When I saw the Star Magnolia, I just thought of her and knew that was the right plant.
DeleteHow beautiful! Spring is 100% my favourite season. Jx
ReplyDeleteI would tend to agree dear! It's so exciting isn't it?
DeleteThese glimpses of your gardens are always gorgeous. It must be exhilirating to be able to take it all in.
ReplyDeleteIt is rather. My one favorite moments of the day is when the dogs go out and I stand out for a few minutes and take it all in with a small wander.
DeleteI agree with Jon - Spring has so much hope! All shiny and new.
ReplyDeleteGlorious, m'dear! Surprisingly pleasant in the UK as well.
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Spring always offers such hope...I agree....at least till this morning when I heard out great Ass and Dictator said he is already looking to see to stay in another term. What makes him think there will be a country left in four years alone??????
DeleteI'm longing for flowers and buds on the trees. Thank you for sharing images of yours! You have inspired me to at least try my hand at window boxes this summer.
ReplyDeleteThe landscape is changing, almost by the hour.
ReplyDeleteYou got that right.
DeleteLovely flowers!
ReplyDeleteWe have some of the tiny little ones popping up, but it’s still too chilly for the daffodils, for example.
In two more weeks, we’ll have a totally different landscape, tho.
And I can’t wait for you to show us the wildflowers!
XOXO
Sixpence
If you have a patch in your yard that gets full sun, play wildflowers. They do amazing and there's virtually no care.
DeleteIt's been cooler, with high, thin clouds, and high winds for the past four days. But we did manage to plant a couple of elderberry bushes. And thinking to maybe do a potted herb garden, too. It's tough here when temps hit 112 - 115 and the sun blazes.
ReplyDeleteI did a monitor bar near before last, and it did much better over planting them in the ground.
DeleteI think we must be neck and neck in gardening terms, but your birds are, on the whole, much prettier than ours. However I do have lots of seeds I collected from last year, including oodles of foxgloves.
ReplyDeleteI don't have any Fox Glove, but when people growing around here it really takes over. I love Fox Glove, and there's also another one called bells of Ireland that I like.
Delete+ la primavera è qui :)
ReplyDeletein Italia i fiori sbocciano al meglio sulle rive dei laghi del Lombardia e Piemonte e nei giardini terrazzati di Capri, Napoli e Sicilia.