Choice Morsels

Spring means all garden is popping with flowers! Easter Lilies along my front walk: My Pink Hydrangea & "Zara" Clematis putting on a nice show! This is on the corner of my house by the back patio. My huge Coneflower out front! This must be around 40-42 inches in height, but Coneflowers can be quite large & bushy.

Today's photo is a shot of a couple kinds of Zinnia's I've got going on in the back flower bed: The pink & white one in the foreground is called "Hidden Dragon." I was looking for something different in the way of Zinnia's when I ordered the seed last fall. The peach one in the background is called "Lilliput" and like it's name sake, has small flower heads. They were seeds I found on a seed rack locally. It seems like I have better or worse years for how well my Zinnia's perform--this year seems a good one! Next: Easter Lilies Among the Greens I though the white Easter Lilies peeking out from amidst the other greenery lovely.  This shot is from one of my front beds.The the bushy greenery the lilies are peeking out of are 4 O'clocks. Behind them is a Japanese Sky Pencil Tree & a Hardy Hibiscus. Venturing Out: Today, I drove up to the nearby Dollar to pick-up some occasion cards, a new set of red pla...

A Riot of Easter Lilies in the Front Bed! I have them scattered both thick and thin all sorts of places. Next View was Today's Project: Hedging the Landscape Ivy The ivy is that row of green running to the A/C unit. The Pink Hydrangea you can see there is looking pretty this year. Last View: New Purple Leaf Shamrocks They bloom pink flowers, but the leaves are this deep purplish-pink. They are one of this spring's purchases. I bought them for contrasting color. There are about 10 here and there different places.  (You can see one along the bottom of the top photo in front of the container of Hen & Chicks.)

I have several photos to share this week: First: A Shot of the Tree Guy Working on Cutting Down Our Neighbors Pine Tree. Getting the cutting done of branches on some of my trees as well as getting this giant tree cut down was a coordinated project between ourselves and our neighbor with the tree company.  He, Hubby and myself stood outside in our driveway, me with coffee mug in hand, watching the whole process starting at 7 am.  This tree was easily 100 feet tall. They removed every branch first, then sliced the trunk down in 4 foot chunks. Took about 2 hours.  Today's Garden Project: Cleaning up this bed was really the last of my bigger garden projects. It needed raking off and fresh mulch, which is a combo of pine bark mulch and mower mulch over newspaper. (keeps the weeds down) The two plants in front are Purple Bell Peppers. In the containers are container blueberries. The row of spiky green leaves are my various hybrid day lilies of assorted speci...