Our Spring Gardens

Its May 29th 2019 and I took a walk thru our gardens.  Unfortunately the tulips and the daffodils are gone or nearly gone already.  I missed taking their pictures.  But here are others to enjoy....

This is the back yard pathway to the road.  We have some greenery and a few flowers for spring in the raised beds.

This is the same pathway looking in the opposite direction.  I love those two sets of young birch trees within the garden circles.

The Creeping Phlox is abundant.

My favorites right now are the lilacs. The scent is delicious and I love it.  These are still very young bushes put in about 3 years ago.  They have come a long way since last year when the buds were meager.

For those of us who adore Lilacs, here is that corner closeup.  We have them in a couple of places in the back garden and in the front entrance we have two young ones just sprouting their 2nd year buds which these bushes did sparsely last year.

Another favorite of mine has always been the Columbine.  We only have a few plants and this
one is still blooming.  The pink is very light.

A few more spring time flowers to enjoy.

In this corner we have several blue varieties which are just coming into bloom.

A bit of yellow to brighten one corner of a raised bed.

At the entrance to our building we have a couple of these planters, transplanted with colorful flowers for the season.  As time marches on these huge planters will be bursting with flowers.

Also in front in two shady nooks we have our hosta beds complete with rhodos for now and some lacy hydrangea which we will see as summer arrives.

Those who know about lilacs, know that they get better the following year if they are pruned so to that end, I have cut myself some flowers for my table.   My whole apt. is scented in Lilac.  I love it.  I hope they keep for another couple of weeks so I can cut more as the days progress.

This morning I layered and pinned my Romance of the Sea Horses and made a larger drawing of a mermaid.  I think I still need to go larger so that is on the drawing board for another time.
I have some Midsomer Murder programs to watch.  They are among my favorites and to get them and watch whenever I like, I have added Britbox.com to my computer.  Its a very reasonable cost for someone like me who favors Britcoms and BritMysteries.  I could watch them for hours.
But being such an Anglophile, I also added Acorn.Tv to my computer.  By having two places to go, I can watch all manner of British viewing, including documentaries and movies at any hour of the day or nite and not have to depend on PBS programming as I have in the past with those showing meagerly on Saturdays and a few scattered thru the late evening hours a day or two a week.

Have a nice day.