The past couple days here have been so beautiful! Temperatures in the 80's and sunny. Perfect spring weather for outside gardening and cleaning, as well as allergies. Headaches and runny noses aside, Monday marked the first journey of the lawn mower. Our grass needed mowed before this but every time we had the day off, it would rain. A lot. We got our mower used when we moved to our current house and really haven't had any problems with it, aside from needing to sharpen the blade desperately.
Here's a overlay of almost all the backyard flower garden (the right side is only half showing). Right before we left for Richmond (April 16th) all the red tulips were just about to bloom and when we returned a few days later, they were in full bloom.
(This picture is from last year.)
Bleeding hearts in bloom. These are actually planted in the pot on the top of the steps to the right in the picture above. These along with the other pot (which contain tiger lilies) are from the previous owners. I don't know why, but we haven't moved these planters. I'd like to transplant the bleeding hearts to the right side along the fence, but haven't gotten around to it. I love the shape of this flower!
More red tulips along the left side of the yard. If you look closely in the middle right, you'll notice two smaller pink and white tulips in bloom. These are some of my favorite flowers we have.
Here's a picture of my in the process of moving around some of our ferns. I love ferns. A lot. But the right side of our flower garden is overtaken by them. At this stage they are rather manageable- not too big, not too small. Big enough to enjoy but not big enough to block the view. Give them a few weeks. Or as it seems after just looking at them, a few days. They get really big and seem to take over. My plan is to move most to the far right side and against the lower fence (which you can't see in this picture). This way the ferns won't block the other flowers, but be more natural grouped densely together.
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