We've been enjoying some lovely spring weather the last few weeks and our gardens had just started waking up.
This is the front garden between the front door and the garage. Showing off now are flowering magnolias, candytuft, daffodils, grape hyacinths, peonies and columbines.The front berm includes the crabapple tree and lilacs blooming.
We had a replacement added recently. A deer used one of the crabapple trees to sharpen his antlers and severely injured the bark. The tree did not survive the winter. I love the looks of Japanese maples so we added this beauty! We've had lots of rain and mild temperatures so I'm hoping it gets a good start and feels happy here. Note: we added a little barrier to protect it from our deer neighbors.The peonies have grown very quickly and are just preparing to bloom!I just love our blooming crabapple tree in the spring! The bees love it, too! They were really working and the whole tree literally buzzing.I was so disappointed when we lost one earlier this year.I added some new peonies to the edge of our yard behind the house. Last year I added native hydrangeas (Annabelle) and some lilies that needed to be divided. They are all coming back but thought adding color earlier than these bloomers would be nice. These new peonies are just starting to come up.
Clematis that were planted last year are also getting ready to bloom, too! I forgot which color I planted where so it will be fun to watch them blossom!Wednesday, we had an unexpected snow and two nights of freezing temperatures. Our gardens had just started waking up so out came all of the spare sheets and old table clothes to cover our tender vegetation!
Temperatures during the day, even though it snowed, hovered around 36 degrees F so I took the freeze coverings off so they wouldn't get wet; didn't think the peonies would appreciate wet, frozen blankets. I'm happy to report all efforts were successful!! The peonies made it and so has everything else! The lilacs, the crabapple, columbine, hydrangeas, magnolias all are still blooming and look quite proud that they braved our 'winter in April!' The weather is going to be much warmer this week (70s and 80s) and I'll say we have had our last killing frost. We'll be planting the rest of our garden veggies. Time to get busy!!
Thanks for stopping by and I'm wishing you a blessed week!
Zenda
5 comments:
Oh, I do love it when a garden explodes with life and pretty flowers with the onset of spring. Lilacs, magnolias, clematis, crabapples, peonies.....it must smell divine in your garden, Zenda. The gardens are looking amazing! That is a worry that the snow returned. To see all that beauty be destroyed in one fell swoop would have been dreadful. So happy to see the storm didn't do any damage. So happy warmer temperatures are forecasted for this week so you can safely plant your veggies. Enjoy, lovely lady!
Your garden looks absolutely amazing - very, very attractive indeed. Worth the work, isn't it? Snow though??? Urgh! Well done for saving the plants.
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You had snow???? WOW and WOW! Mercy! We had some bad weather Saturday with tornado warnings and plenty of rain. Yesterday was beautiful and this morning cool. Crazy I tell you!!! Your gardens are beautiful! Girl...how do you keep up with all that beauty? I love it all. Hugs and blessings, Cindy
The weather has been crazy lately and who would imagine snow in April! I am glad you plants are doing well. I am hoping that May will be a warmer month for most of us. Hope you have a nice week.
Wow! You have so much beautiful landscaping! It’s always a shame to lose anything that you have worked hard to cultivate and that is a planned part of the overall landscape, but it looks like you’ve come up with ways to make up for it. Glad you didn’t have an icy massacre! I have seen a few plants around the neighborhood in my walks that didn’t survive. Sad. 😞
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