April Showers Photo

Trying again to post photos - seems it was a problem everyone was having with posting pictures.

April Showers Photo

Well, sorry about the photo. I am having trouble uploading photo tonight. Will post as soon as I remedy problem.

BAS

April Showers

I can't believe it has been almost 3 weeks since I have posted to my blog. Spring has arrived and I have been busy at the nursery and in my own landscape. About a week ago we had a downpour that flooded our streets and yards. You can see from the photo it appears I have a lake in my backyard. I may have to work on some system to move the water out of the landscape. I have been researching rain barrels, rain gardens, dry wells, and a dry rock bed to move and hold the water when we have these downpours. Everyone says we don't have these large fast rains often, but heavy rains in a short period of time are becoming a common occurrence and it wrecks havoc on the yard and landscape when they come. Suggestions anyone?

Home Again

The drive home was full of beautiful blooming plants. The pears had just about completed blooming, and the yoshino cherries, redbuds, and dogwoods dotted the landscapes with splashes of color. It has been a busy week. We arrived home from our Florida trip late Sunday night and I spent the week catching up on mail, phone calls, email and work. It is Saturday and the sun is shining for the first time in a few days and the temperature here in he Midwest is 59 degrees. Seeing all the beautiful plant material in Florida made me anxious to get out into my own landscape to inspect plant material. I just came in from a walk through my landscape. One of my favorite perennials is Hellebores. The hellebores are one of the earliest flowering perennials - slow to take off and multiply but well worth the wait. Mine are in full bloom. The daffodils are blooming; my ornamental pear is beginning to flower, and the flowering cherry, stewartia, weeping redbud, and magnolia have buds pushing forth.