Such a spring. After all of the cold and the snow in May, summer has finally arrived. Oh, I know summer is officially a month away, but with 90 degree weather, it feels like summer.
It has been interesting to see what has come up in the yard at our new house. The beautiful tulips and iris have put on a show. The bulbs that I brought with me made the transition and are putting out leaves and flowers. The only thing that didn't make the move was a high bush cranberry, but luckily there were two here in the yard already.
Grandpa and I have torn out several sprawling half-dead spirea, and we have replaced them with daylillies and canas we brought with us and monarda that I bought at the nursery. We've torn out dead evergreens and replaced them with hydranges and lots of mulch until we decide what to plant. Around the mail box we've created a rock garden with phlox and lilies, lavender and lambs ears, daiseys and coneflowers. creeping phlox and Russian sage. It should be glorious when everything blooms.
I noticed this morning that the blackberries are blooming. It is usual for them to bloom this time of year, but we also usually get "blackberry winter" when the temperature usually cools off for a few days when they bloom. So if the 90 degress we are having today is "blackberry winter", we may be in for another long, hot summer.
Also worked outside this weekend...so hot, so muggy. Hard to have heart when it looks like thus year might repeat last two summers. We pulled out front shrubs and replaced them...got statue. Cement might be the only thing that lives! Last summer's ornamental grasses died in the winter I guess.
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