No Lack of Green Here

When I first thought of this blog we were coming through a very prolonged end of winter and Spring seemed like a distant dream.  Any little sign, a crocus or daffodil, and I'd proclaim, "Spring is here!" and we'd go back to cold, wet weather.  Well that weather actually helped.  In mid May we went away for a few days and came back to Michigan to find all of our daffodils gone, one set of viburnum blooms goon and another one the way.  Everything is just speeding in and out.  Spring is here and it's been cool, wet at first but not much rain recently.  I took photos, but didn't post them on time and the dates on them are wrong, but I would say end of May.   

I've been moving things around, replanted a vegetable garden this year and we'll have to see if it works.  The rabbits have already consumed the lettuce.  This photo was taken before I cleared things out, but the viburnum is in full bloom here!  I'm contemplating getting rid of the lilac bush, horrors, because it cuts out the little sun I get in this patch for veggies and raspberries.

After having dug up tons of hostas to allow access to take down a rotting crab apple, I replanted some here and still need to give more away.  I need to move these coral bells in front which were just put in and exchange them for the light orange ones for some color. Mulch is sorely needed and I keep forgetting to call for a delivery.  This bed actually looks much better than this and is in the front, center of the house.   Here you can see the last of the lilacs, which came and went in the blink of an eye.  I love looking at the tricolor beech in the right hand corner of the photo from my bedroom window.



A week or so ago my front, east bed was full of these alliums.  Now I've got pink and orange poppies and peonies.   It's definitely wild.  I have learned how to tame things.

Since everything changes so fast, I decided that after I retire at the end of this week, I'll take a walk around the house each day to see how things are progressing, and now I'll actually have time to do a bit of work too!