Photos: House Yard and South Lot

[ysabetwordsmith]

I took some pictures around the yard today. These are from the house yard and the south lot.


This is the forest garden.




The first flower has opened on the bluebells. They normally bloom around May Day so this is more than a month early.




The hosta is sprouting between two jugs covering bleeding hearts.




Garlic chives are growing in the septic garden. The leaves are good in stir-fries.




This is the purple and white garden.




Blue grape hyacinth is blooming in the purple and white garden.




Peonies are sprouting pink in the purple and white garden.




The south lot is turning green.




Violets are blooming on the south side of the house. These are blue and white ones.




This is gold currant. It's at the west edge of the forest yard, facing the road.

Comments

[mdehners]

This Spring I got a couple of surprises. 3 yrs ago when I moved here to E TN I planted Spring Beauties and a couple species of Trillium. They didn't come up last year but last week I noticed both;>! Also, I noticed leaves that looked familiar in the carpark bed that also last week showed themselves to be Virginia Bluebells(I didn't Plant it;>).
We have 2 species of Violet here in my yard; the local Purple and White's that hitch-hiked in the plants I brought with me from NW Florida. Gave up this yr trying Sweet Violets....none lived more than a couple months.
Cheers,
Pat

[seraphflight]

Hostas are gorgeous but they always get ruined by slugs and snails in my garden.

My peonies look like yours, at the moment, and my grape hyacinth are in bloom too.

Thanks for sharing your photos, which are lovely.

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Hostas are gorgeous but they always get ruined by slugs and snails in my garden. <<

My nicer ones sometimes get nibbled, but the old garden one I got at a plant swap never seems to. I don't grow the really fancy ones.

>> My peonies look like yours, at the moment, and my grape hyacinth are in bloom too. <<

I have multiple colors of grape hyacinths blooming now, so much fun to see.

Thanks for sharing your photos, which are lovely.