End of April with new plantings

Whoa, where did this come from! I left the garden for a few days and it went into full glorious bloom.

Ajuga Reptans. Love these electric flower spikes and bronze foliage.

Mini pink tulips just bloomed.

The Fireglow Euphorbia has blooms on, I haven't seen these before now, a photo without sunlight will show them off better.

These tulips just keep opening...amazing.

Some new planted sedum from the roadside sale last weekend.

Ajuga is planted along the entire front of this bed now...in part sun & shade.

A clematis vine! I pulled this sprig out of a crack in the concrete at our old house, it came up with the root attached so I put it here. I forgot about it all winter but it seems to be doing great.

Sweet Woodruff planted in the shade behind the lacecap hydrangea.

A newly planted sword fern and Sweet woodruff ground cover. It would be great if this took over & did some weed control next to this fence.

Marmalade Heuchera Coral Bells in their new home in front of bleeding hearts.

Newly planted Mexican feather grass...and the lavender has survived the winter.

Autumn Joy stonecrop will get 2-3 feet tall and 2 feet wide. Planted in front of the peonies, iris, perovskia and grasses.

The other autumn joy stonecrop from the plant sale, across the path from her sister, and nestled here on the sunny side of the flowering pear tree. The daffodils finished their show this week.

This rose sprouted from seed, I believe. I found it growing under an old rose in my garden. It looks to be thriving in it's new spot.

An interesting sedum from the plant sale...love the copper and pink coloring.

Another new sedum planting. Can't have too many of these.

A hot orange Oriental Poppy plant just found it's way into the herb garden.

Three garlic plants, a good companion to roses, as pests will avoid the area & miss out on lucious apricot blooms.

Burgandy Heuchera Coral Bells found it's new home here in front of the rush.

Looking mighty perky.

The Daphne Odora cutting has been hardening off outside this week. I think it might actually make it. The other two cuttings bit the dust pretty hard.

The view entering the back garden from around the side of the house.

A Fairey Cathedral if I ever saw one.

The Sweet woodruff in the front yard, getting the last kiss of sun today.

The peonies are growing well amongst the allium.

The north path...I love this area, so much potential.

I had my way with this Iberis...gunning for more blooms and a pretty mounded shape.

This bulb has cracked the earth wide open. I wonder what it is?

The tulips are huge...they may be done with this show very soon.

This one got so tired it had to rest it's head on the rock. The saxifraga sure is doing cool things with it's flower stems.

Looks like 8 and 1/2 months...ready to pop.

A better look at the Euphorbia in bloom. I like.

I found this tulip decapitated. I bet I fed a cutworm a nice dinner last night.

Is this beautiful to anyone besides me? I'm in love with my compost heap...and I just added silver twigs of Russian Sage and swirly branches of Euphorbia. The Diablo Ninebark on the right is looking dark and lucious too!

Dogwood is blooming pink!

The pink flowering dogwood tree bloomed...another one I thought would wait a few years to bloom. A darker pink than I have seen on this tree type before.


I planted three Iberis in the front yard this morning. Their white flowers will be fantastic with the spring bloomers next year. I may be able to get these to bloom this fall if I shear them soon. Then they will contrast with dark red peonies and floating purple alliums.

I did some planting in the north walkway; a pussy willow tree I found on a free table at the flower show last summer and a maidenhair fern from my neighbor Betty. The Salmonberry tree in the pot will have to wait until I have energy for the back yard, it wants a wetter spot than this walkway.

From a street-side plant sale!

The hatch back full of newly aquired beauties.

Counter clock wise from top right, three kinds of colored foliage Heuchera Coral Bells: bronze, marmalade and neon yellow. Two Sweet Woodruff ground covers, bridal wreath spirea, orange oriental poppy, mexican feather grass and two peach & cream daffodils.

The peach daffodil bloom...nice!

Seven purple Ajuga bugleweed ground covers, a sword fern, three kinds of sedum and a hen & chick.

Three garlic plants, a native Northwest Swordfern and two Iberis Candytuft plants. The Iberis are going to make a great spring show with the front yard tulips and snowflakes.

Two giant autumn joy sedums, pink lilac, maidenhair fern and a sword fern.

Iberis, will definitely need some shearing to keep a nicer shape & make more blooms.

A native swordfern...my shade garden is beckoning.

A Salmonberry Tree! Another northwest native...I remember eating the clear orange berries in the forest near my home growing up. So magical.

The most open tulips so far...






Our flowering pear tree, lookin good for year #1.

The coral bark maple was suddenly in full leaf this week.

A twisted twig cage for the fairies to play with.

Some ceramic garden art...trying to keep out the kitsch but I think these pass.

Leucothoe...I planted three in a row & today discovered they get 5' wide and tall! Will move them this fall to a roomier spot.

Alliums

The pear tree we planted in back is looking good.

This maple is begging to be pruned...I told her I need to read up on this first.

A newly placed rock! Jon came across this big rock when digging a home for the pear tree in back. What a great find. The creeping jenny will fill in around it in this bed.

The apple green sedums made it through a very wet & cold winter.

A water catch for a drippy spot in the garden. I use this to water new plantings & hope the birds will visit too. My northwest native plantings, flowers & lack of pestisides should make it pretty easy for them to visit me & call this garden home.