Saturday, May 2, 2009

April Showers... Brought What?!

While I was occupied the last couple weeks (seriously, where did April go?), the yard and garden were busy doing what yards and gardens do. As usual, there are many garden projects in process such as planting, moving, and removal of all things large and small. It's easy to get overwhelmed when thinking about the limited seasonal windows. When I start to feel a little bogged down by all the projects, I find it recharges me to walk around and watch the progress of things, especially in the spring. Behold May flowers, "the march of the weeds," and some others that are moving along quite nicely... I hope you enjoy the photos as much as I did taking them. Have a great spring weekend!

The sunny side of the house: lilac, ostrich ferns, woodland strawberries, herbs, azalea

Strawberries and the soon to be cutting garden: sunflowers, cosmos, and sweet william

Lavender varieties


Seedlings...

Melon

Pumpkin and melon

Cucumber

Peppers

Trees and shrubs...


Dogwood
Apple

Pear

Blueberry

Azalea

Lilac

Other plants and flowers...
Ostrich Ferns

Concord Grapes
Phlox
Columbine

Bleeding Heart

Tulips

Wild violets

Thriving invasive's (at least they're pretty)...

Buttercup

Dandelion

Garlic growing along side many, many weeds

2 comments:

Liz Steiner said...

These are beautiful!!! I'm jealous of your lilacs! The azalea's here are gorgeous, but I've not seen one lilac.

Valerie A. Heck Esmont said...

I love all of your photos. I was very sad I missed the lilacs. I went to my Mom's last week and they had just finished blooming. Living in the city is fun but I do miss the plants!