Trees in Bloom

The Cleveland pear trees are in bloom all over town and that goes for our yard too. They look beautiful with the daffodils still yellow. I do love this time of year.

The tulips are starting to bud and should be in bloom any day as well.

Saturday Clean UP

I spent quite a bit of time weeding and cleaning up around the deck in the back yard. We cut the butterfly bush down to about 18". It looks like it has a lot of green on it and is growing well. We did some trimming on the red bud tree and I weeded out the scab columbine. No sign yet of the lilies of the valley. I also did weeding around the garden area and in the flower garden. The lavender is growing well and there are signs of all the flowers --including the oriental poppy, except the balloon flower, but they are often slow to start in the spring.

We have new growth on the honey suckle vine and all 4 rose bushes are greening up although we are still going to replace the one grandiflora that doesn't seem to be doing too well. We also might have to replace the moondust as it is also not really doing well. There are buds already on the bleeding heart. I think we need to split that for next year.

Wayne did the first mowing on the lawn. We purchased a brand new battery powered weed wacker and hope it will work for many years. The old one finally bit the dust as we have used it for about 15 years. He also did some brick border work. It's looking good.

Transplaning Peonies

We put three peony plants on the south side until we could get an area prepped for moving them. Last summer Wayne finally got it done so this week was the ideal time to get them moved, which was from the south side to east of the arbor. I hope they get enough sun although they are on the south east. I also hope I remember which one is which. I don't think the "red" one is really as red as I thought it would be, but I think they will do well. We moved a white, red and pink one. They flank the walkway to the arbor and should look great once they are fully grown and mature.

Forsythia and Daffodils In Bloom

The forsythia is in bloom. It's so wonderful that spring is finally here. I walked the yard and found the bleeding heart up futher, uncovered the roses. It was 80 degrees and really wonderful to be out in the yard.

The daffodils in front are also in bloom.

Yard News

At the first of the week Wayne trimmed the trees in front so they are looking good.

This morning daffodils were blooming!! It's been 80 degrees although it's suppose to be colder and we sat out on the deck for the first time.

Walk About

We did a walk about last night and inspected the yard. Wayne picked up the trash by the front door and around back. There was a bag full that had accumulated over the winter.

We found the daffodils and the grape hyacinths up. The north group of daffodils are coming back in abundance. I don't know what happened to the south group. There are far fewer now than when we planted them. The buds on the lilac tree are big and show a little green. The tulips on the south side of the garage are up as well as some stray daffodils and tulips on the south side. We found a few signs of day lillies and one or two campanulas up.

Around back the bleeding hearts are showing as well as the columbine. I found some black eyed susans growing and it looks like my oriental poppy has made the winter. There are also some buds on the burning bush and the bridal spirea. I love this time of year watching things come awake again.

Our efforts to tie up the arborvitae in the back worked well and we don't have the sprall that was there before. The transplanted arb, though, looks a little worse for wear. I'm still hoping it will take root and grow back out.

Spring is Coming

The weather has been heavenly in the high 40s. The snow is melting and while things are still quite frozen out there, there is hope that the days are getting longer and warmer day by day. It's time to get out and get pruning done and the plan is to get that done this weekend.