garden 2015

Here is a little tour of my garden this spring.  I will have to say one perk of staying in one spot for nine years is having the pleasure of enjoying a mature landscape.  I don't know how many yards we have landscaped and then moved on.  I go visit my wisteria I planted in Raytown thirty years ago.  So glad it is not in my current yard.  Yikes, those things can take down a house.  I worked at a garden center for years and my experience really paid off. 

 pot of pansies

 redbud

 pansy

 California poppies

 bleeding heart

 Jane magnolia

 Jane magnolia

 flowering pasque

Jane magnolia

Garden Art Journal

This is the first day of spring and the first page of my garden art journal. I took these photos yesterday. Today, we have at least 4 inches of snow with more on the way. It has been a long cold snowy winter. Only fitting that we have to endure yet another blanket. But at least we had a peek of spring yesterday and looking forward to filling this journal with notes, pictures and art work from my garden. The flowering Pasque was just beginning to peek out of the mulch, I took the photo then tucked her back in. Love this furry little flower. (Lower right hand corner.) I bought the rock at a yard sale downtown last year. Straight from Big Creek. The daffodils are miniature variety. I've tried to journal on the rock three times. Don't like the way the writing looks with the garden. Looks too much like graffiti.