Spring arrived early this year. It has been gorgeously warm for the last month or so, which has caused everything to get confused. The flowers have been blooming, the May flies have been swarming, and just yesterday, I saw a squished June bug on the sidewalk. What’s up with that?!?
Our yellow Siberian Iris FINALLY bloomed this year (it, along with the lavender crepe myrtles, was a late Spring 2011 edition to our lawn from the half-price sale of the annual Master Gardener’s Spring Plant Sale). I expect to be able to split it out next year. Our original-recipe purple iris doubled in size and need to be split out, too. I know some neighbors who are going to be plant-bombed this year!
The wisteria that I swiped from mom and dad’s woods two years ago finally bloomed, too. I’m training this guy to be a tree-shaped wisteria, instead of letting it vine on the house. I value our mortar and bricks too much to let it loose…
This sweet shrub is one of my favorite plants that came along with the house. It is very hardy, easy to propagate, and it smells like bubble gum when you walk by it. I purposefully positioned the back garden path so that people walking through the garden would brush up against this plant and catch a whiff of its candy-like fragrance. I'm surprised we don't end up with a back yard full of neighborhood kids when this thing blooms...
And here is one of the many purple money plants that we have coming up in the back yard. I've pulled up many of these (we had purple and white ones taking over the back yard when we first moved in two years ago), but they are self-seeding, and they always come back. The trick is to keep them under control...
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