Garden bloom tour April 2015

Let the garden tour begin in the  backyard with this potted candy tuft which I had to move up onto a stand to keep the chickens from digging out all the soil.

The flowering crab apples put on quite a show this year.  

This is a new bleeding heart plant I picked up at the Good Earth home show.  I need to move it because it turns out there is a hosta planted in almost the exact same spot.

 

Wood hyacinths, love the color.

There are half a dozen or so of these dark tulips in the raised bed.

The magenta tulips have really had some wow factor.  I like their pointed petals and bright color. I have them in several places.

So glad the tulips bloomed in the windowbox on the back fence.  It is gorgeous when you see the flowering crab apple and the tulips together.

Moving out to the front yard now.

New azalea I picked up at Costco.  It's a nice bright color in the border between the driveway and the grass where I recently pulled out all the knickknick.  (Update:  This azalea had to move to the backyard in 2016 because it couldn't handle the heat and dry soil out front.  It's near the chicken compound now.) 

Carmine Cosmos. Hoping it does well and reseeds so I have more next year.

The dianthus survived winter in their posts up against the house.  I gave them a nice haircut and they have started to bloom real nicely.

 Forget-me-not, what a lovely color.

Grape hyacinths, love 'em and hate 'em.  They come up all over the place.  I constantly remove them, but I do love their color.

A heuchera in a pot on the porch.

So excited that the lilac has FINALLY bloomed.  I started this one in a pot several years ago and was giving up on it.  The mother plant died after last February's ice storm.  It was a lovely surprise for this one to have 6 blooms this spring.

This rhody came with the house, I think this year it is blooming the best it has in 23 years.

I do have a thing for tulips!

I am so looking forward to the peony blooms and all the bearded iris too.

And I hope to keep posting photos of my garden as it grows so I have a diary to look back on.

Thanks for looking!  Though I am not a "real" garden blogger I will link this up with Carol from May Dreams Gardens for the Garden Bloggers Bloom Day.