These are the areas I worked in today in my garden.  You can see in several of the shots if you look closely that I still have to pull out the dead material from the winter, but spring is managing to break through nonetheless.  I dusted off my large sized bottle of Aleve and made use of it as I of course over did it my first day out!

In less than two months the garden fountain will be almost buried by the perrenials that will come up around it.  There will be day lilies, antique English roses, lavendar, various daisies and several flowering ground covers including native mountain strawberries with cute little hot pink flowers.

We were going to attack putting away Jacqui's things from the hallway (we still will work on them tonight) but it was just sooooo beautiful out today that we went down a few "rabbit trails" along the way to putting furniture into the container.  Here's a complilation of garden shots.  The annuals in the window boxes are hanging from our deck railing and were planted just prior to our last snow storm 2 weeks ago.  They obviously were no worse for the weather. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh yeah… I discovered a cute grey plastic mushroom that is designed to be a toad house.  It obvious works since it was filled with our little frogs.  I found it buried under the vinca and never knew it was there.  The previous owner had all kinds of cute little adornments in her garden most of which she left for me… I'm expecting to find a gnome buried around here one of these days 

My garden discovery of the day… it is possible to leave a garden wagon (with solid plastic bottom) full of piled up dead materials out all winter long, and have 3" of incredible compost when you find it in the spring.  Yeah!  I did that this winter.  It's probably not super good for the equipment though… my poor wonderful husband spends all his time maintaining the garden equipment I destroy  or leave out.

Audrey Jeanne Roberts