May Roundup

Everything is getting ready to pop in the gardens so I thought I would get caught up on the last month before I post the new combos. I am eagerly waiting for my clematis to bud - I gave it the correct food mixture this year (rose food) and am hoping that's what it needs to flower. If not I'm afraid I will have to replace it, I'm sure it's ancient.

Some late spring blooms:

And the lilac, which is also struggling to flower....

2009:

2010:

2011:

It did well last year and I can't find any decent pictures of it.

2012:

At least it looks much fuller now.

Spring 2012

Finally, some action in the gardens! The season has started out strong and healthy and it looks like all my fall transplants have made it. The only major casualty so far is the little sand cherry I had transplanted to the middle of the driveway bed below. It had been struggling in a shady spot in the backyard and never came back after the transplant. I'm going to get another ornamental cherry to fill the spot, I'm hoping to find one on sale within the next couple of weeks.

Driveway bulb bed:

New tulips!

There's not much going on in the backyard yet but the sedum angelina likes its new location. Barberry is almost ready to put out little flowers here, along with grape hyacinth.

The large sand cherry out back is putting on a nice flower show right now too, although I couldn't get a good photo of it. I'm slowly pruning out dead wood and trying to get it to fill out with healthy foliage and flowers. It also looks like the viburnum in front is finally healthy again after being diseased for the past two years. I'm not sure if it will flower but all the foliage on it looks good. There's a boxwood blight happening in our area as well, and I had to trim some dying branches off our shrubs out back. I'm hoping that will be the last of it and we don't lose them since they're huge and healthy.