This has been a spectacular Spring so far in the Hudson Valley as well. The forsythia has been amazing everywhere you look is bright yellow as well as the dogwoods and magnolias. I expect my evening primroses to also be beautiful but out of control. It's always a game with the deer and I am waiting to see if a bluebird family moves into my house we built for them!
Sounds lovely. It’s too cold here for many of the plants you mention. When I was growing up in New Jersey we had a yard filled with both pink and white dogwoods. I don’t think primroses do well here, either. At least, mine don’t. I spotted bluebirds a month or so ago, but I don’t see them often. Hope you have luck with your birdhouse!
Thank you for that inspiring garden tour! I have most of the plants you mentioned in my yard as well, including croci, and am prepared to surrender again to the rabbits and visiting deer helping themselves to my tulips and other delicacies. When I moved in a few years ago, my neighbors asked me if I knew I had a rabbit family living under my porch. That explained the big opening in the ground leading to the apparent rabbit homestead. Well, it’s still there, and all I can say is “have at it.” Enjoy the weekend!
So much joy in a seasonal garden! I, too, have created a garden in which something is always in bloom from May to September. Wishing you bright and beautiful blooms throughout the season!
Goodness! Of course not, I meant to imply that gardening takes an enormous amount of time and energy. I find it impressive that you're able to maintain your lovely gardens as well as writing
Oh, your yard sounds lovely! Your description of your yard makes me want to plant more in our little postage stamp.
Our Korean Spice Viburnums are in full bloom in NJ. We have three in the front bed and you can smell them down the block. I once brought a single ball into the bedroom. Our amazingly communicative dog, Dynamo (sadly deceased), could not tolerate it. She got up during the night, jumped off the bed, then proceeded to paw at the bed to wake me up. She wouldn't come back up, so I turned the light on to see what was going on. She looked at me, then pointedly stared at the bloom, then stared back at me, back and forth. She was most certainly saying, "One of us has to go, and it's not going to be me."
For three years of the 00s, I lived in a suburban apartment. Every spring, the largest, most gorgeous clumps of black-eyed susans would bloom right off one corner of the patio. The grass cutters didn't bother them. Mine was the only apartment to have them, so I think a previous resident must have planted them.
to get a good crop of peaches they require regular spraying, pruning, etc... And if you have an early spring and early blooms if you get ONE night of freezing weather you get NOTHING for the year. Very risky.
Meanwhile, in Minnesota where we awoke to a light dusting of snow on the ground, the only flowers in sight are tiny seedlings growing indoors under lights!
I like your penchant for clumps and massing plants together for impact! My humble front corner flowerbed inside a giant circle of stacked moss rocks is a jungle of wildflowers and perennials, so crowded that weeds won’t grow there—only ground cover is the clover that also deposits nitrogen back into the fertile soil—no need to heavily mulch with wood chips! Although summer temperatures in Texas are climbing into the obscene range, I believe we humans would do better with more green spaces, more trees, than to just dump a truckload of rocks in the lawn and call it a southwest landscape! Call me old fashioned, but we need more green, less concrete.
i dunno, we just get skunk cabbages
Sounds like a lot less work.
What a spectacular tour. Thank you.
This has been a spectacular Spring so far in the Hudson Valley as well. The forsythia has been amazing everywhere you look is bright yellow as well as the dogwoods and magnolias. I expect my evening primroses to also be beautiful but out of control. It's always a game with the deer and I am waiting to see if a bluebird family moves into my house we built for them!
Sounds lovely. It’s too cold here for many of the plants you mention. When I was growing up in New Jersey we had a yard filled with both pink and white dogwoods. I don’t think primroses do well here, either. At least, mine don’t. I spotted bluebirds a month or so ago, but I don’t see them often. Hope you have luck with your birdhouse!
A many~colored seasonal garden.
You yard sounds so beautiful.
Thank you for that inspiring garden tour! I have most of the plants you mentioned in my yard as well, including croci, and am prepared to surrender again to the rabbits and visiting deer helping themselves to my tulips and other delicacies. When I moved in a few years ago, my neighbors asked me if I knew I had a rabbit family living under my porch. That explained the big opening in the ground leading to the apparent rabbit homestead. Well, it’s still there, and all I can say is “have at it.” Enjoy the weekend!
I share your approach to animal housing.
So much joy in a seasonal garden! I, too, have created a garden in which something is always in bloom from May to September. Wishing you bright and beautiful blooms throughout the season!
Gardening is not for the faint of heart. I marvel that you have time to write.
Goodness! Of course not, I meant to imply that gardening takes an enormous amount of time and energy. I find it impressive that you're able to maintain your lovely gardens as well as writing
No one can write all the time.
They say those who take pleasure in the natural world live a happier life. So true🙏❤️
Oh, your yard sounds lovely! Your description of your yard makes me want to plant more in our little postage stamp.
Our Korean Spice Viburnums are in full bloom in NJ. We have three in the front bed and you can smell them down the block. I once brought a single ball into the bedroom. Our amazingly communicative dog, Dynamo (sadly deceased), could not tolerate it. She got up during the night, jumped off the bed, then proceeded to paw at the bed to wake me up. She wouldn't come back up, so I turned the light on to see what was going on. She looked at me, then pointedly stared at the bloom, then stared back at me, back and forth. She was most certainly saying, "One of us has to go, and it's not going to be me."
an impressive dog!
For three years of the 00s, I lived in a suburban apartment. Every spring, the largest, most gorgeous clumps of black-eyed susans would bloom right off one corner of the patio. The grass cutters didn't bother them. Mine was the only apartment to have them, so I think a previous resident must have planted them.
My grandparents had apricot trees.
I’ve been contemplating peaches, but they may be more work than I want.
to get a good crop of peaches they require regular spraying, pruning, etc... And if you have an early spring and early blooms if you get ONE night of freezing weather you get NOTHING for the year. Very risky.
As we say here in the Midwest: Yeah, no.
Beautiful. Post some pictures! So nice with spring has sprung.
Meanwhile, in Minnesota where we awoke to a light dusting of snow on the ground, the only flowers in sight are tiny seedlings growing indoors under lights!
I like your penchant for clumps and massing plants together for impact! My humble front corner flowerbed inside a giant circle of stacked moss rocks is a jungle of wildflowers and perennials, so crowded that weeds won’t grow there—only ground cover is the clover that also deposits nitrogen back into the fertile soil—no need to heavily mulch with wood chips! Although summer temperatures in Texas are climbing into the obscene range, I believe we humans would do better with more green spaces, more trees, than to just dump a truckload of rocks in the lawn and call it a southwest landscape! Call me old fashioned, but we need more green, less concrete.
I couldn’t agree more. If we all planted more trees and cut down fewer the world would be a better place.