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| Apr. 19. You can see the flowering viburnum. It wasn't spectacular, but nice. |
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| Phlox (it got looking much nicer a couple weeks later) |
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| Tulips on Apr. 19 |
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| Tulips on Apr. 23. These are Dreaming Maid. They are darker purple than I expected; I was a little disappointed. Also sort of short for tulips, which I knew. |
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| View from the front door - not terribly lovely, is it? Need to fill up this space! |
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| I took this picture to illustrate the purple finch sitting on the wire - we had a ton of them this year. But it is also a nice shot of the back yard. The tree on the right, in back, is the one the pileated woodpecker enjoyed. |
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| Why do we have these yellow patches in the grass? Concerning. |
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| This shows where the daffodils are. |
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| And speaking of daffodils, we visited Reeves-Reed Arboretum to see the daffodils in the "bowl" - perhaps we were there a week or two early (on April 10) or late, but it wasn't as spectacular as hoped. And it was so COLD!! |
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| This is a lovely sampling of the three types of daffodils I planted last fall. From left to right, we have Narcissus Erlicheer, which was pretty but too small and whitish to be appreciated from a distance, and the smell was super intense and off-putting and made me sneeze; Narcissus Pink Wonder, which just wasn't pink enough; and Narcissus Rijnveld's Early Sensation, which was marvelous and, indeed, an early sensation. |
