How is your garden looking today?

Oh, look at all these flowers. Very nicely done, dys!

Lovely gardens all around.....

my smoke tree this morning (5-11-09) the small tree in the center, not the big elm.

Wow, you've been busy. Last time I saw the garden, it was mostly bare soil in those plots. That light sprinkling of rain we had a couple days ago has everything in bloom here too.

Dys, it has really come a long way! Is that a peach tree in the foreground?

yes K, a dwarf peach, we ate about a dozen from it last year and the birds also ate about a dozen.

Peaches off the tree..... one of the best things ever. Kind of ruined me for store-bought peaches though.

Your cotinus coggygria is looking good..I wonder if I could get that in one gallon cans..

Carry a one gallon can over to Diane and Dys's house late at night. You can probably snag the whole thing. Which one is the cotinus goggygria?

cotinus goggygria, this morning, 5-12-09

fountain, this morning

apricot rose, this morning

i'm so effin jealous dys, my yard looks like the house was foreclosed last year

The site of my fern bed project, under the flowering
crab. The bricks mark dryopteris carthusiana set
out this year:

my CALLISTEMON has made it through another year. Last year, because of the long term drought and lack of subsoil moisture it almost died. We hacked it back and despite being on water restrictions I let the hose just drip on it.
It still looks rather strggly but another trim up after flowering and it will do wonders.

These are often refered to as bottle brush.





forget-me-nots have just about finished so i spent an hour pulling them out today.
this is what they looked like in full bllom

Wow, dad,wish I could grow some here -- I have a perfect spot for them up front.

However...
I do have some lilac flower buds showing now:



Should have a good show this coming spring.