Friday, March 20, 2009

First Day of Spring! 2009

Finally! The countdown is over, today is the first day of spring although it doesn't feel differently from the last day of winter! I thought, to properly represent today, we could take a walk around my yard and see some of the blooms from summer 2008. Yellow pansy......

purple pansy.......


dripping hosta......


hidden asters.


Beautiful beechnuts....


happy hydranga....


prettier purple pansies.


Pink joe pye weed...



brillant bunchberry.....



lovely blazing star....


wonderful pearly everlasting!


Foxy fireweed.....


one lone sprig of baby's breath.


Starting sedam....


something......something......


rabbit's foot fern.... fortunate for the rabbit....


glowing golden rod. (Bee is free....)


Darling daylily.......


doubled ruffled......


rival roses.......


showey snowball bush.......


everlasting, aster!

Not sure......


parking spot pleasure......


friendlier fireweed.


Heavy hurricaned hydranga...


same here.


Some flutterby......



while others catch the eye....

and yet some seem to rise.....


also, sedam set in time.


Purple protuding hosta....


pink protuding partner.



Handsome holly.....

heavy follies.


Shredded paper for the nest.....



this corner is the best!



Sweetness shrub....


vibrant violets....


taming trillium.


Glory of the mountain.....



overlooking bleeding heart.



Hens and chick.....


greenier grass, the pick!


A tree with long dots.....



some small plox...........


living lily of the valley spot.


And, mountain laurel.....
bye for now.

C&G Design.




7 comments:

Kathleen said...

How wonderful on the 1st day of spring to take a stroll through your garden with you. I could almost smell the sweetness in the air. I love the day lilies. Do you start your pansies yourelf, or do you buy them already started? Have a great week-end, Dawn. HUgs, Kathleen

Anonymous said...

Great walking with you Dawn. You have a lovely garden.
If your Beechnut has nuts this year I sure would like to see some of them up close to see if that is what I remember when I was a kid.

Jean Merriman said...

Great walk thru the garden on this nice spring day!! The Holly looks great and I thought it would not grow here. Guess I sure was wrong about that. Aunt Ginny used to send us some when I was a kid off her tree in British Columbia si I guess if it grew there, it should grow here so I do not know where I got that idea from but I think from Nana.

tina said...

Awesome walk around your yard!

Protector of Vintage said...

Wow, you have a beautiful yard!!

Skeeter said...

Soon all your pretties will be back again! Hang in there...

Meike The Dutchlady said...

Thanks for the tour I loved it. You have quite a variety of flowers in your garden. Maybe you can do another tour when the summer flowers are out?