Today is a cool, rainy day, but this week has been gorgeous with warm sunny days that even reached 80 degrees. Things in the garden are blooming and budding and sprouting from every bed and corner. Tomatoes and cucumbers have been planted (and Sunny's paws are red from helping me dig the holes). A new tabasco pepper has replaced last year's. New beds are being prepared and seedlings have almost finished their hardening-off process and should be in the ground by next weekend.
Still blooming from last week are daffodils, forsythia, Chattahoochee phlox, Chinese fringeflower, and candytuft. Newly blooming are the Japanese snowball bush, fruiting cherry trees, strawberries, and scabiosa. The peonies are in bud. The hydrangeas, crepe myrtles, fig tree, and dogwoods are putting on leaves.
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| The strawberries are blooming in the strawberry jar. This one is an everbearing Quinault. |
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| The scabious are beginning to bloom. |
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| The Japanese snowball bush blooms happily behind the vegetable garden's fence. |
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| The cherry trees are turning into lovely white clouds. |
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| This budding peony has a peony ring around it to prevent the heavy heads from drooping once they open. |
Once it stops raining and the ground dries, I have lots of projects to get back to: sodding an area for the poodle (which is actually making progress finally), planting, setting out seedlings, and, of course, weeding.
Wishing you happiness in spades,
M.R.S.
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