I just finished planting 19, six packs of annuals in my garden. When I used to live in the city, that was just about all it would take to assure a massive display of color for the rest of the spring, but on my five acres… it pretty much disappears! All these pictures are from my front yard, the mountains and the view are off the back of the house.
The tree in bloom on the left is a Redbud. They grow wild in our area and there are a few here in the yard. They really should be called "Magenta Buds!" as there's nothing red about them.
The tree to the right is a Ginko and there's a clematis trained to grow up its trunk. The clematis is about 4' high already.
It rained so hard the past couple of days that my bells fell over. The antique English roses around the fountain are about 3 or 4 weeks from blooming.
Here are the first of the tulips which popped up yesterday. Yippee! After growing up in San Diego all my life (where you can't grow tulips) they have become my favorite part of Spring here.
The garden with the little dutch girl fountain is at the top of our hill and is pretty much solid granite with a few pockets of dirt. In about 3 or 4 weeks this garden will be filled with yellow and white daisies and the lilac bush will be in bloom as well. This time of year really is the prettiest for this particular garden. The sun cooks anything planted here in the heat of the summer, so I don't spend much effort on it.
I remember my first Spring here three years ago. In San Diego, very few plants go dormant over the winter and there are flowers every month except December and January. In February when "spring" starts, it slowly unfolds a little at a time. When we first moved to the mountains, it was the beginning of March. We went from the dead of winter to full bloom in about the first 4 weeks… spring didn't just arrive, it exploded all around me! I hope your spring is getting ready to explode as well. Have a great weekend in the garden.
(UPDATE: About 15 minutes after I posted this, our weatherman said we're supposed to have snow on Monday or Tuesday!!! Ahhhh, spring in the mountains…80 degrees for 2 weeks and then snow! Fortunately we don't usually hard freeze so all the new baby flowers should be just fine 
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Audrey Jeanne Roberts
AJ looks like you have a wonderful garden. What a greatpeaceful place to escape to and meditate.
Hello Audrey, I am returning the favore of a visit (thanks to CWO webring). Your garden sounds absolutely lovely! We’ve had some warmer weather here the past few days, but still have snow on the North end of tree lines and we have a hudge one in our yard yet, so our flowers won’t be springing out just yet. I did notice some trees budding out though! I used to live in Colorado and know all about the weather being 80 degrees one day and the next you get snow! The last year I lived in Colorado I wore shorts on Christmas day and it was blizzarding out on New Years day!