Glory Days!

front left: rosemary, eggplant & cukes; front right: yellow & red beans plus red onions

First ever cauliflower!

Transplanted fig to sunnier spot

Lettuces

Peas & red onions

Molly's peonies

Persian mint & Virginia Sweetspire

Climbing New Dawn rose on deck, veggies to the right

New Dawn climbing rose, hydrangeas

Trampoline!

Gardening Bliss

Molly's hummingbird favorite fuchsia with New Dawn climbing rose

The sweet peas inching up

Short-lived but grand peonies

Almost finished pansies

Jim's basil seedlings getting a late start

Biggest surprise-blooming French thyme!  'Only ever had the odd thyme blossom, til this year!

Molly's African daisies with lobelia

Chives in foreground, achilea, climbing clematis, Siberian Iris and peonies is background

Outdoor Tonics

Photos thanks to friends from springtime hikes and their awakening gardens during the quarantine:

From N & T, Duluth, Minnesota, while walking the trails near their home:

 

Tulips

 

Rock painter's woodland

 From P., Fairfax, Virginia, early spring garden mystery plants:

Presumed weeds but are in fact sweetferns, a type of fern

From E., Reston, Virginia, my master gardener friend who can 'paint' with flowers and knows their Latin names to boot!

In-progress rock garden

Diantus & alyssum

Dogwood in all it's glory

Garden update May 7, 2020

Back garden-azaleas, Siberian iris & annual flowers May 2020

Siberian Iris, African daisy, azalea

Front garden with varieties of thyme cascading onto driveway

Detail of Elfin (creeping) thyme

Varieties of thyme between stepping stones

Onion & shallots, raised bed replacing azaleas killed by black walnut tree's juglan

Ligularia, sorrel, creeping jenny "Goldilocks"