Flowers

These are a few pictures of some of the perennials from Kiwi.  They're all doing quite well and the blooms are beautiful.  Hopefully someday they'll grow up to be as beautiful a garden as where they came from.  I haven't a clue the names of the flowers, but maybe Kiwi will drop by and let us know.

Honeymoon phase

This is the time of year that I love the garden.  I walk through the paths, weeding as I go.  Everything is still so beautiful and full of promise.  I imagine the huge harvests that I'll have of everything planted.  Nothing can go wrong at this point.  Today was one of those days that I walked through feeling like a proud mama.  All is according to plan right now.  Even the fact that I had to purchase the above eggplants at that big orange store does not bother me right now. 

I love the look of cabbage.  It's one of the prettiest things in my garden right now.

The sugar snap peas courtesy of Laura are budding and we'll have peas in short order.

These are Cinderella pumpkins.  My neighbor gave me the seeds for these.  They have huge leaves already.

We've had some very high temps the last few days and the tomatoes are loving it.

There are about 20 peaches on my 3 year old tree.  This is the biggest so far.

The new perennial beds are doing well, thanks to Kiwi.  This is a Lupine and I'm very happy that I even knew it's name.  She is a fabulous flower gardener, I am not. 

Signs of spring

This time of year always finds me outside looking for signs of life.  I'm usually dragging the kids through mud to show them the swelling buds.  They usually say something like "Great Mom." and then run off on their scooters to enjoy the sun and warmer weather.

Today was no exception.  We've had some fairly nice days this week.  The days have been in the upper 40s with lots of sun.  The snow is almost gone and although much of our state will get snow this week, we're forecasted to get mostly rain. 

 

Today I found daffodils poking their little heads up.

 

Peach buds swelling.

 

Cherry tree buds doing the same.

 

Toby was out enjoying the sun, but he didn't want his picture taken.  He was more interested in having me throw large muddy sticks for him to fetch.