What's Up?

You ask "What's up?"

Daffodils all over the yard are mostly blooming.

This by the pond (name escaping me).

Hostas farthest along are against a wall on the east side under my study window.

Hyacinthe

Bleeding heart.

Bloodroot in perennial garden.

A's garden is mostly done.

Some doors are up.

The vegetable garden has peas up as well as spinach and other lettuces.  Sorry no photos.

Front Garden Makeover in Honor of Mom

The Front Garden makeover happened in two steps.  I posted here about the pathway changes and now today the landscapers from Sun Nursery came to do the clean-up, planting and mulching.

Here are some before, during and after shots.

I don't have any photos from last year of this garden.  I was so disgusted with how it looked.  The weeds just got out of hand. And the lavender so straggly.

I had created this pathway of sorts but it was a precarious trail.

Here's the new pathway.

This is how the Russian sage looked this morning before work started.

Russian sage is to the left and lavender to the right.  Liriope to far right.  

You can see some of the weeds.

There are Autumn Joy sedum between the lavender and liriope.  They will stay.

Jose and his crew started right in pulling out the lavender.

Then removing Russian sage.

They raked it all clear.

Then mulched the entire garden.

I have this much mulch left to spread on other beds.

A vast improvement.

Here are 5 pink muhley grass clumps. In front are two clumps of sedum they divided for me and transplanted down at this end.

This lavender - Munstead dwarf English lavender - will not get as woody as the Provence type I had.

This is Early Amethyst beauty berry, one of 5.

A fitting tribute to my Mom who loved to garden, too.

I guess I can remove the Miss Utility markers now.

Into The Vegetable Garden

The time was over-ripe to get spring crops planted.  Weather has not been cooperative so here it is April 1st and I'm just planting for the first time in 2014!  Yikes!

Here's the before I started working photo.

Here's my after.

Seedlings of bok choy and Green Ice lettuce.

Seedlings of Butter Crunch lettuce, more bok choy, and mesclun seeds planted.

One large bed of snow peas.

I have two beds of garlic planted last fall.

In other news the frogs have been busy.  I can hear the peepers (tree frogs) as I type this.

The pond was very full from rain over the weekend.

Photo from Saturday.

The goldfish are loving the sun.

Frog eggs.

I tried to capture some of the tadpoles in there which were a surprise to me.  I don't know when it was warm enough for those eggs to be laid.

These daffodils will be the first to bloom since they get the best sun and warmth near the house.

View of the newest garden expansion.  More on that as it develops.

One final photo or two of crocuses.  They won't be there long.  The ground hog likes them.