Finally got to get out in the garden....

Wow, tomorrow is May 1. Last year we had many warm days beginning in March, but this year has been cold with lots, and lots of rain. This has truly postponed my gardening.

I appreciated the rain after last years drought. We have a huge pond with wild life in the back of our lot, most of it rimmed with cattails and red-winged blackbirds. The pond is part of at least eight properties. Our next door neighbor dredged out a nice inlet where the Canada  geese roost, coyotes stop for a drink, and the peepers remind us it's springtime. This area went dry last fall. Luckily, with all our spring rain, this pond is again full and so are any depressions in our yard.

The geese just hanging out

So, today, finally with warm weather and sunshine, I collected some of my pre-Mother's Day stash of plants, and have planted a few of my collection of hypertufa containers. One is now planted as a fairy garden with some new and some plants reserected from last year. A couple others are succulent gardens with different colored varieties of hen-and-chicks.

Ready for the Fairies

I got out to "plant" some garden art-lovely, giant flowers made from glass dishware given to me by a friend. Love the way they look against the house. I was careful to place them where the rain run off from the roof and the wind wouldn't damage them. They are wonderful!

I was also able to clean out two of my raised beds which means I am half way to clean! In the first bed I got my edible pod peas planted, along with lettuce and radish seed. There are a few garlic plants that wintered and a hill of miscellaneous tulips. I wintered them there because it got too late in the year to dig in the yard yet the bed was still workable. This bed is still on the damp side but not like the surrounding area that is squishy as you walk through it, ha! Good thing my hubby build me the nice raised beds that are fully fenced.

In the second bed I got in 100 sets of red onions and will fill the rest with Yukon Gold potatoes. I have divided the potatoes keeping several eyes for sprouting. They are currently drying and forming callouses in a box on my dinette table. I am hoping to find time over the next couple days to plant them once they dry.

This little hot spell has my daffodils standing tall, hyacinths smelling great, grape hyacinths popping out in several beds, forsythia looking bright, with tulip flower heads looking hopeful along with magnolia, lilacs and azalea.

Neighbor's star magnolia trees almost full open. Beautiful. Time to take a deep breath of that fragrant "fresh" air and relax on the swing and watch the geese.