Exploding Spring

On Friday I noticed my yard was exploding Spring and took some photos, but have not had an opportunity to do my gardening journaling for my readers yet. I went for over 2 weeks with not much new blooming and now everything is blooming and the weather is perfect and I am delighting.

Last night I spent the evening under the canapy with the lights and my laptop. I so love spending time outdoors in my garden! I learned something new. Well, I knew it, I just did not realize the impact.

Bugs are attracted to light. Yep. I knew that! However, did you know they also like laptop light and come swooshing right into the screen and smack themselves out? Oh, and the heat from the screen dries them quickly making them difficult to remove.

Why is it that something so enjoyable always comes with such pain? For instance, that favorite food is good why? Because anything that tastes really good is really bad for your body. Right? Are you with me on this?

My vinca vines are blooming those cute little delicate purpose flowers. I love the verigation of the leaves on these vines.














This thing is blooming again. It blooms faithfully every year. I have no idea what it is except that it is a bulb I planted long ago. it stands on top of a very tall single stem. If you know what it is, please tell me!















I have a lot of surprise lillies in both the front and back yard. As gardeners know, just like other perennials, these things must die back on their own and as they do so, the nutrients are drawn back into the bulbs. They are different than other perennials in that they bloom after they die back the same season, not before. For instance, the daffodils bloom first and then die back and do not bloom again until the next season. The surprise lillies produce greenery first that dies back now and then do not bloom until July. I do not like the way they lay all over everything and so soon I will need to get out there and bind them with rubberbands as I do every year.





Some of you may remember a year ago our squirrel problems. It appears they just won't give up until they have de-stuffed the entire swing cushion! We have now dubbed it the "squirrel swing."




I did a layout last year about my Lilly of the Valley and they are blooming now. They remind me of my Grandma as she had them along the side of her house.






My Iris are blooming now too. It is fun to watch them as they respond to sunlight. Those in the sun always bloom first and then I watch them progressively bloom down the line as it gets more shady in the beds. I have a ton of these and they were at our home when we moved in, although I have replanted and spread them.













As in my last garden post, I have to fight these helicopters from the Maple trees every year. They have made the walkway look horrible. I did sweep them Friday night, but now I have to work on getting them out of the beds. The boys got them out of the gutters on Saturday. They were mowed over in the yard on Friday too, but it will take another mowing to really get them good.











I was pleasantly surprised to see my Clematis blooming, especially after I had so rudely disjointed it from the wooden fence thing it was on. That thing had gotten so ugly. The Clematis can just grow on the regular fence if it wants to, and although it was a low bloom, it still bloomed and showed me it had life in it.

So, this Clematis is the same Clematis that refused to die when Abbie was a pup and continually dug it up and then survived the move from one box to another. I just wants to live.







My azaleas took a really hard hit a few weeks ago when we had about 4 or 5 days of nightly freeze. This lonely bush only has two blooms and it looks to me like the other blooms are dead. I hope the greenery still comes out and it is still alive. The one in the backyard looks the same.

I hope you have enjoyed reading my garden journal! If you blog about your flowers, let me know so I can come read.