Spring

 

I feel like the new season really begins the day I uncover the water features, uncover the garden statuary and the patio furniture. 

I didn't get all that done today but I got the water feature going which took me several hours because I'm plugging it up through the garage this year. I run the extension cord through a PVC pipe underground so I had to reposition that and dig a shallow trench. I worked all afternoon on it after working this morning in someone else's garden. It was beautiful and sunny today after previous days of cold and wet.

I noticed today that plants are budding out. 

The grass in the front looks great -

 

 

In the back, not so much -

 

 

More pruning to commence after the bins are emptied on Thursday -

 

 

This morning on my Facebook memories, Camellia 'Bella Rossa' popped up as blooming one year ago today. I checked it and it has 3 blooms. More to come I'm sure as last year it was covered with blooms -

 

 

Camellia "Mathotiana' -

 

 

Spirea 'Ogon' - always the first shrub to bloom -

 

 

Euphorbia wulfenii -

 

Euonymous albomarginatus -

 

Arctostaphylos 'Sunset' (Manzanita) -

 

Awaiting an empty bin (two bins is not enough!) -

Check out this gorgeous rhododendron! This is from Rueben Hatch's garden. It is Rhododendron lanigerum -

Text and photos by Phillip Oliver, Dirt Therapy