A favorite early spring flower of mine, Blue Scillia opens just a week or two after my neighbors' little white Snow Drops. They send the clear signal that the ground is warming and our bulbs and perennials will soon start popping out of the ground. A bonus that it marks the beginning of April - we'll likely have blooms in the garden in time for the upcoming long weekend.
Like Crocus, these tiny flowers multiply through garden beds and lawns and finish flowering well before the grass will need cutting and can be mowed without consequence of damage to the plants.
Something else that's showing life in the garden are the young fruit trees we planted in late April last year. They were already flowering when they went in the ground so we are experiencing the early spring transformation of these trees for the first time.
we have two Cherry trees; one is a sweet red cherry and the other, a sweet black cherry. They are accompanied by a lovely little peach tree that I just adore blooms on! Can't wait till I get shots with the Canon I bought last summer, the macros are much better than my previous camera even though they were good too!
Macro photography and gardens go so well together - the close up images really help show off delecate blooms and details you might otherwise overlook. Insects are also interesting subjects, as are toads and mice if you can get them to sit still long enough!
The peach buds surprised me by being fuzzy just like the fruit that will grow from them.
A borring bit of trivia perhaps, it is true too, the cherry tree buds look different. Their outer casing is smooth and, oddly enough, reddish brown! I even double checked to be sure.
Ah, spring! The birds and bugs are getting active. Nests are being built in the birdhouses, evidenced by fluttering streamers of dried grasses and old morning glory vines dangling from the little round doorways! Most of Sunday morning in the garden we were serenaded by a good mix of bird songs; crows, blue jays, morning doves, house finches, purple finches, chickadees, sparrows, goldfinches, nuthatches. red winged black birds, robins, cardinals and cedar wax wings.
Looking forward to documenting and sharing a whole new season in Our Enchanted Garden!
A favorite early spring flower of mine, Blue Scillia opens just a week or two after my neighbors' little white Snow Drops. They send the clear signal that the ground is warming and our bulbs and perennials will soon start popping out of the ground. A bonus that it marks the beginning of April - we'll likely have blooms in the garden in time for the upcoming long weekend.
Like Crocus, these tiny flowers multiply through garden beds and lawns and finish flowering well before the grass will need cutting and can be mowed without consequence of damage to the plants.
Something else that's showing life in the garden are the young fruit trees we planted in late April last year. They were already flowering when they went in the ground so we are experiencing the early spring transformation of these trees for the first time.
we have two Cherry trees; one is a sweet red cherry and the other, a sweet black cherry. They are accompanied by a lovely little peach tree that I just adore blooms on! Can't wait till I get shots with the Canon I bought last summer, the macros are much better than my previous camera even though they were good too!
Macro photography and gardens go so well together - the close up images really help show off delecate blooms and details you might otherwise overlook. Insects are also interesting subjects, as are toads and mice if you can get them to sit still long enough!
The peach buds surprised me by being fuzzy just like the fruit that will grow from them.
A borring bit of trivia perhaps, it is true too, the cherry tree buds look different. Their outer casing is smooth and, oddly enough, reddish brown! I even double checked to be sure.
Ah, spring! The birds and bugs are getting active. Nests are being built in the birdhouses, evidenced by fluttering streamers of dried grasses and old morning glory vines dangling from the little round doorways! Most of Sunday morning in the garden we were serenaded by a good mix of bird songs; crows, blue jays, morning doves, house finches, purple finches, chickadees, sparrows, goldfinches, nuthatches. red winged black birds, robins, cardinals and cedar wax wings.
Looking forward to documenting and sharing a whole new season in Our Enchanted Garden!
1 comment:
Never underestimate the power of the "ordinary". I always visit your blog when I am missing my own garden. It's just not going to happen in an apartment! But one day....one day again I will have my garden.
Love,
Toni
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