SPRING!

Wooh hoooh! The snow is almost gone already! I can't wait to get out and play in the dirt! I really can't wait to see if any of my plants come back. Someone must know me pretty well because I received this poem in my inbox last week :O) This was written for by a Jones too....but no relation. Go figure :O)

Yeeehaw!!!!

Fire up the grill,
Water the yard,
Give the Garden a Till,
It ain't all that hard

Spring has sprung
The cold is done
Garden flowers are still young
Thriving in the mid day sun

Tend to your plants
Start tearing up lawn
Be sure and avoid the red ants
As you emrace the outdoors till Dawn!

A. Jones

More pictures

Mystery flower #1
This is a bachelor button that I didn't plant. I love them though so it was welcome in my garden.

Gladiolus close up. They are so beautiful. It got really cold a couple nights ago so I cut them all and put them in a tall vase with some of my delphiniums. It made a very striking arrangement.

Mystery flower #2 I'm not sure what this is and it's definitely not something I planted. It is very pretty though.

I have never seen nastursums like these. The yellow with red streaks is very pretty!

I planted Forget-me-nots--Alaska's state flower--but this is the only one that I saw actually flower.
I planted this yellow rose for my mom. She loves yellow roses. She wanted to come up to visit this year but didn't make it. Maybe next year.
These are the dark red lilies that I thought would be a different color. I don't know what happened to the other colors. They looked very pretty from the road next to my white fence.
One of my delphiniums. I really loved the white one but it didn't last long enough to get a picture.