How is your garden looking today?

I try to work at it.

Wow, that has come a long way, ci! It is looking very nice.

Thanks, Butrflynet.

This is our front yard.



The two blue spouts on the edge of the sidewalk is our house drainage system.

Consider burying the rock a bit.

Or not, your choice.

I've spent a lot of time designing and working with crews dealing with rock of many sorts, including with at least two japanese mentors who are rock masters, boulder masters. Natural rock does not appear plopped, although here in Albuquerque, it is usual and multiply unnatural as they put the plopped rocks from the sky every few feet.

Natural rock is at least somewhat buried.

Not to yammer at you, but this is a present aggravation for me in a plopped rock city..

osso, It's funny you would notice the rock; I tried to move it, but it's just too heavy for me to do anything with them. I tried leveraging and failed to move it. Maybe, I can dig a hole behind it, and push it in.

Well, I would notice, being me. A brat, but with rock/boulder experience.
I don't - of course - take your garden as penultimate japanese, but it fits generally re california japanese that I am quite comfortable with. I mentioned the rock as it stood out.

Your friend, the brat.

I really appreciate the recommendation; nobody in my family ever helps with the landscaping or around the house. With both kids out of the house, I'm on my own, and this aging body can't do stuff that was so easy about ten years ago.

osso, I built up a good sweat this morning to dig a hole for the rock to sit in, and here's the "final" result. There are three rocks in our front yard. There's on in the flower bed, the one that was repositioned, and if you scan to the right, the third one.

Better! Good work, kiddo..

Prompted by recent activity on this thread, I took some snaps this morning through the kitchen window, but am currently struggling to upload them. Bear with me a bit longer.

Okay here we go. You will see I have not been able to get out to weed and cut grass for a couple of weeks, due to circumstances outwith my control, but as things are getting into leaf and flower, I took these this morning from our side window.







I planted that beech hedge about three years ago now, and it's coming on well.
Sorry the place needs a trim- just like its owner.

Eh, I like a little scraggliness at times. Lovely, really, McTag.

Hi McT, Your tulips are lovely. My one tulip that comes up once-a-year about this time is way past its prime, and not for show. T.

Love the magnolia. We had one of those growing in front of the kitchen window at the house I grew up in. When it was in bloom it filled the whole house with wonderful scents.

LAst year we saw many really net MAndevilla plants in Lewes Del. They would grow them in tubs and then put them out after dangers of frost passed. Up here, we get frosts into early MAy and Id hate to put such plants out too early.
SO , I bought 4 of em and weve got the plants on a bench inside of the workshop building next to a window. Theyseem happy enough and there is a heater in the one room which will keep it dfrom getting frosty if we suffer one of those nights.

I got 2 red and two pink. DOwn in LEwes, they would attract hummingbirds like only one other plant (The Mimosa tree which I cannot stand). SO, Im looking forward to an onslought of hummers.

A cold April shower's s holding growth here at a standstill.



Showing some promise, though. Just maybe my irises will bloom.

Mines looking windblown..

View out back from the dining room window of
this spring's botanical splendor.



Fondly hoping for a good show from my irises a couple of weeks from now. A couple of early ones are showing now - near the potted plants.

Ah, spring!
Lovely, neko.

I was down in the mid south these last four days or so and I bought some Mandivilla plants. Its about time to plant them here and they draw hummingbirds .