The first dafodil of spring
A couple days ago I saw this blooming dafodil.
And this pretty robin.
I took this picture yesterday. Not surprisingly, the robin could not be found.
Would anyone like an icy Bud?
A couple days ago I saw this blooming dafodil.
And this pretty robin.
I took this picture yesterday. Not surprisingly, the robin could not be found.
Would anyone like an icy Bud?
I can’t Believe how close this pileated woodpecker gets to my front picture window. I see him every day now.
Simone has gone back home with my daughter Megan, and Rikki has lost his bird watching buddy.
This dried astilbe is still standing in my front garden. to view what it looked like last summer, look HERE.
When I took that walk around my yard a couple days ago, I also saw the beginings of my Sweet William. This perennial flower was planted by the family that lived in our house before us. We moved here in 1982. Since then I have continued the to transplant this pretty pink flower to many other locations in my yard. If you visit this link you can see what I have to look forward to, around the middle of June.
I took a walk today around my yard, looking for some sort of a sign that Spring was on it’s way. This is what I found. I have several areas of naturalized daffodils and some are starting to show themselves. This makes me happy.
Here is another group of daffodils. This one is by the back yard woods.
I was looking at this yellow and orange leafed maple tree, as I was walking down the driveway and it looked to me as if someone had taken a bite, right out of the middle.
Here’s a closer look at this tree’s pretty colors.
The last daisy in the garden
The burning bush has started to turn red.
Here’s that spider web, only from a different perspective.
The flowers of this Hydrangea bush were blue three years ago, when I first bought it.
They have all turned pink because my soil is too alkaline. I have been feeding it a special fertilizer to turn the blooms back to blue, but as of yet I have had no luck .
When it first blooms, the flower is pale pink and green, It becomes a brighter more vibrant pink as it matures.
Crainsbill is a type of Gerainium that some consider more of a weed than a flower. However, I prefer to think of it more as a pretty flower, than a weed. It’s the seed heads that tend to resemble the bill of a crane. The translation of the Greek word geranos is crane.
I have had this Rose of Sharon shrub of about three years now. I admired one that a friend had in their yard and was very happy when I found one to purchase at a local garden center.
This pretty shrub starts blooming in August and flowers for the rest of the summer. Hummingbirds and the insects they like to eat are attracted to it.
Sharon is actually a region in Israel on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea that is mentioned in the Bible.