Spring flowers

Seems I’ve been absent from the blog world……again.

though I have been thinking of you and this little blog of mine quite a lot.

Getting any screen time has been difficult but I’ve enjoyed being

outdoors and watching the season progress.

Seems when I have more to share,  I have no time to tell you about it.

Isn’t that just the way it is sometimes?

    

Seems like ages ago when we had these pansies, now we only have a few left.

 Only the yellow ones.

Doesn’t anyone like yellow anymore? 

The daffodils where better then ever this season. I dug up more 2 years ago

and moved them around and they are filling in well. 

The early heat this spring made them come on sooner then normal.

I was worried they would go by too fast but thankfully

we went back to normal temperatures so they stayed around longer.

The last 2 days have been like summer weather.

This is the strangest Spring I can remember.

Winter one day Summer the next : )

As some of my other daffs are ending my Thalia daffs are just coming in.

The whitest of all daffodils and not overly tall.

Of course we can’t forget the poppies.

Do you have a favorite spring flower???

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!

I hope yours was as wonderful as ours!

The weather couldn't have been any nicer.

We had stayed open til 2 in the afternoon but mostly to get our

usual routine done.

We had planned on having a picnic by the beach but then decided we'd go home,

whip up a few batches of bread and have a late lunch.

Much nicer then yesterday

when we never had any lunch due to being so busy.

I took my camera with me just in case.

This rock reminded us of a frog hut .....but for a gigantic frog.

I had never noticed it before. I wish we had raked this area out in the fall it...it's where we have a huge patch of myrtle that's just starting to bloom.

I don't dare disturb it now and knock all the flower buds off.

While George got started making lunch Nigella and I worked in the garden.

Pulling onion grass.... tons of it.

and catching this hairy bittercress ( cardamine hirsuta) before the seeds spread everywhere.

It's also known as the "Greenhouse weed".

Gosh.. no wonder I have it everywhere.

If you'd like, you can read more about it HERE and how to get rid of it.

One of my other kitties

Nigella getting some well deserved sunbathing in.

Poor girl she's been cooped up in the house all winter and now that we're working all

the time she never gets so enjoy the nice weather,

It was such a treat to be home in the middle of the afternoon in what felt like a

summer day.

Felt oddly unfamilar but wonderful.

I think Nigella enjoyed having us home.

I never wanted to come in even to have lunch.

I hope you all had a wonderful time on Easter and that the weather was as nice where

you are as it was in New England.

Signs of Spring

Is there any plant more cheerful than daffodils??? One minute it's cold and winter seems never ending and then there they are all bright and bold. They almost seem misplaced with everything else around them still sleeping.

Usually this garden is trimmed back of all the dead branches and debris but I rather like the way the daffodils look as they seem to force their way thru.

This is a variety I planted just for home...and if I was good I'd remember the name. ??..>.^(* Thank goodness I knew I'd never remember so I have it written down in a file. I wish I had done that with other plants in my garden....I've learned it the hard way and now I keep old tags and marking pen in my apron so I can quickly stick a tag by it then go back and record it later. Anyways I love the look of this one...it's creamy yellow, kind of doubly and really huge.




This beauty is one that came in a mixed bag of daffs so I don't know it's name but forever I've wanted to move it to a more prominent spot so last spring I marked it so I would remember to move it in the Fall. I know I did it yet this year it seems that it's only a foot away for it's original spot...I guess it didn't want to go far???

Hyacinth ....can't you just smell their sweet perfume???

These are growing nicely among the onion grass. I really have to do something about all that grass....wonder if you can eat it???

Daffodils

There flames the first gay daffodil

Where winter-long the snows have lain:

Who buried Love, all spent and still?

There flames the first gay daffodil.

Go, Love's alive on yonder hill,

And yours for asking, joy and pain,

There flames the first gay daffodil

Where winter-long the snows have lain!

Ruth Guthrie Harding

Sorry..... I don't have a poem for hyacinths!!!!

Take care,

Carole