Garden Update

With all the rain and sunny weather combined my gardens are flourishing! Remember a few posts back the pics I took? Well, I took some more pics today and the difference is amazing!


















































Remember the Clamatis and how you had to squint to see it? Look at my babies now :-)






















Even my honeysuckle is growing!
















I've decided to put in another garden on the shady side our house where it looks so awful all the time. This side of the house gets the morning sun and then is shady for the rest of the day.

It was truly a wonderful surprise yesterday to receive a freecycle email offering up Hostas.
Check out my score! I believe there are 5 Hostas in there, plus a couple other plants given to me.
















We are going to dig up the area around this bush and put in a shade garden with stepping stones. I have this idea of making my own using concrete and painting bible verses on them. I have this big bag of cement in the garage begging to be used for something and my creative juices are starting to flow. I'll post pics once I make them and IF they turn out.
































This grass is always so nasty looking, what a difference some Hostas and flowers are going to make.
















Simon worked hard on Monday putting rocks all around the border of this "garden in the works". Last year it was full of transplanted 4 o'clocks. I'm curious to see if they come back. Unfortunately, I have to leave it looking pretty much as is until I can tell if there will be new growth (other than the weeds).

All this rain means beautiful flowers for my gardens

Summer's coming!!!

I love the summer. Camping, swimming, picnics, boat rides, strawberries in June, Family Camps in July and August, gardening. All these things I can associate with different smells. Right now, I'm imagining the smells of my peonies, roses and honeysuckle.

My gardens are becoming full of green and my Clematis made it through their first winter and have small shoots growing up.


















Even the Hostas are poking their noses up :-)
















If you look very,very closely near the wooden stick on the left you will see one Clematis shoot and on the right another
















Aren't these lovely, they're called Icicle Tulips. The only bulb out of 20 that survived the squirrels :-(
















Pretty soon I will have all these lovelies gracing our gardens again...
















Oh, how I hope I get another rose bouquet like this one. It was so incredibly beautiful.
















Day lilies

































Soothing Lavendar, right under the window. The scent is unbelievable.
















My one and only Beebalm...see Karen I did plant it,
















and I still don't know where the raspberry bushes came from.