Spring is officially here and it seems like the daffodils were waiting for the memo. They are in full bloom now and their yellow flowers are a bright and happy sign that the cold dreary days of an extra long and extra cold winter are behind us. Sure we’ll have some cold days ahead, but those are little dips in the road compared to the vast valley of winter we crossed. One of the spots in my garden where I have daffodils is a small garden just above our patio. It’s actually a raised bed made from retaining wall blocks and was part of the patio project two years ago (one of the first things we attempted to improve our former foreclosure lot.)
Inside this garden bed there are hyacinths (which are currently turning the patio into a very fragrant place to visit), daffodils, Muhlenbergia capillaris or Muhly Grass, a Japanese maple I was given for fathers day, some Ponytail Grass (aka Mexican Feather Grass or botanically Stipa tenuissima), a sedum, sage, some irises – white rebloomers (we’ll have to wait for late April or May to see them), and hopefully some poppies. Everything has its own season and this garden should provide pretty good 3 seasons of interest.
Similar scenes are beginning to reveal themselves all over the yard – isn’t spring the best time of year?
Refreshing The Mailbox Garden
Last year one of the areas of our yard that I was sorely behind on updating was the mailbox garden. Since mailbox gardens typically are the first thing that people see when they come to visit it’s nice to have something to greet them. It…
Spring Blooms and Buds (Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day)
Today the major player in Bloomsday action is the tulip! Some of these pictures were taken a couple days ago so you can see the blooming process better but all of the flowers you see in this post are currently in bloom.Here is the bed…
Decorating for the Holidays with Live Potted Plants
The holidays are an extremely busy time of the year. We go from Halloween with spooky decorations, to Thanksgiving with autumn harvest styles, then to finally to Christmas. For those who enjoy decorating (and have the storage space for all that stuff) it can be…
Designing the Winter Garden: An Asymmetrical Plan
Here is the second of the two hand drawn sketches of my winter garden layout. The first one was symmetrical. This layout uses mostly the same plants just puts them in different places. One addition to this plan is a miscanthus that I originally planted…
Dear Dave … that looks wonderful and reminds me of the spiral garden I really want to build this year ! .. My bulbs are just waking up with their greenery .. it will be some time before they flower BUT I know they will and that is keeping a smile on my face when I look at them : )
Joy
What a cute garden area….yessir, Spring is a wonderful time of the year!
Spring has to be my favorite time of year! The city and county clean up the roadsides, the hummers, butterflies, bees return, fresh air fills the house and all the sleeping plants are awakening…