Monday In the Sun

Pretty Yellow Iris with white falls.

What in the world is this?

Who said this iris could bloom this soon?  It will never make it until Memorial Day.  It won't even make it to April.  No April Fools Day joke here.  The others next to it are in serious bud, too.  No flowers for the graves this year.  The back yard is not as sunny as the front so perhaps we will get some later.  I try to place them all over the yard to give them a chance to bloom in May  (not March!)


Today is a good day to get down and dirty.  I have to remind myself that it is March and not panic yet.  There is so much to do this year outside.  I could feel buried, but a I usually do all this work in May so I have a little time.

The Star Magnolia has bloomed and is already on it's way out.  The Crab Apple Trees are just starting to bloom, the right one all out and the left one behind.  I don't know why.

Star Magnolia

Crab Apple Three

Lovely Blossoms

I tried some red mulch around my front flower bed and it looks very sharp  against the green daylilies.  Must finish the other side today.  

Daylilies that were divided and spread out.

I have little Bright Lights Swiss Chard and Winterbor Kale to plant out today.  Then I will finally get  chance to plant my cold frame with lettuce and spinach seed.  This could have been done a long time ago, but I was not mentally ready for such early warm weather.  The peas that Dan planted in February came up last week. 

I am off to the yellow brick road now.  Must get my fingernails dirty.  Hope to make some jewelry tonight for tomorrow.  

HAPPY PLANTING
Cybergram