Today I want to take you on a tour of the garden, showing you what is blooming today, April 5, 2014. It is a beautiful, sunny day, a little windy and chilly, but a gorgeous day.
We have a patch of forsythias that started with a gift from our neighbor Mary when we moved in to our house. She had them in her back yard and dug up a few for us. We planted them on the hill in our back yard and over the years we have transplanted more from cuttings and just let them take over that area.
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I have always loved forsythias. They are so bright and cheery.
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Also growing on the back hill are these pretty ruffled daffodils. We never planted them, they just showed up one year. We figure they were a gift from a squirrel or chipmonk.
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At first there was only a single bloom, but now there are a dozen or so each year. I love these.
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And we have lots of other daffodils in the yard, like these peach ruffled daffodils out front.
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And these little petite daffodils are another gift that pops up around the yard.
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These pink ruffled daffodils are planted out front by the street.
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It’s funny, but they were labeled as pink, yet they look orange and the peach ones look pink.
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And this one has some green in it’s petals.
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And we have several clumps of these pale yellow ruffled daffodils bordering the driveway.
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We have two red camellia bushes that are on the ends of an antique concrete bench on the side of the front garden. They are in full bloom right now and are really pretty.
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The Lenten Roses have been blooming for a while, they have a really long blooming period, but right now they are at their peak. They are just popping all over the garden.
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We have been lucky and ours are very happy where they are planted. They have lots of babies each year, so our patch of burgundy, rose and creamy green keeps growing and growing. Which is nice, because these can be very pricy at the nursery.
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Out front, our PJM Rhododendrons are loaded with lavender blooms right now. These bloom several times throughout the year, sometimes even in the dead of winter, but they usually are not heavily loaded like they are now.
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These grape hyacinths are a favorite of Keith’s and they naturalize nicely. They pop up all over.
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These below are from some of the patches surrounding our deck, the ones above are out front. They are very fragrant.
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But when it comes super fragrant, our favorites are the large hyacinths, like these hot pink ones below our bedroom window. It is wonderful when you open the windows in spring and the perfume wafts in on a breeze.
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These light pink hyacinths are under our dining room window. They also provide great fragrance on warm spring days when the windows are open.
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These white hyacinths are strategically planted by the mailbox so we get a whiff when we get the mail or newspaper.
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The petals are very delicate and waxy and when the sun shines on them they look like they have crystals of moisture in them.
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And these violet hyacinths have the most powerful fragrance of all of our hyacinths.
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We have a large grouping in the middle of the front yard and most days you can smell them from just about anywhere in the front yard. They are so strong! And these seem to last the longest of all of the colored varieties.
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And lastly, these little wild violets are a welcome sign of Spring in our garden. They come up everywhere and were a favorite of our neighbor Betty every year. She had wonderful patches of them in her yard. At times it was a sea of purple they were so thick. And they are great to sugar and place on Springtime cakes! I have used them for my Lemon cakes in the past and they are a lovely little embellishment.
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I hope you enjoyed the tour today! What is blooming in your yard?
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