When the garden first begins to return in March, I might find something new to get excited about once per week: a snowdrop, a sprout emerging from the cold earth. Now, dozens of new things happen every day. I can sit outside and admire the garden for hours.
Today I wandered around with my camera, then looked back at photos from when I mulched on my gardening vacation in March. It’s so different now, and it’s only May!
Dwarf lilac
Back bed from the foot of the hill: marjoram and purple salvia in foreground, lambs ears and rue in front of the chair, shasta daisies to the right
The sugar snap peas are flowering
View from the top of the hill
My new passionflower ♥️
Lambs ears, penstemon, Walker’s Low nepeta
Yarrow
Penstemon
I planted the new bed (background) last weekend. The zinnia seeds have started to emerge, and the milkweed seedlings have survived so far. I put in some red salvia annuals so there’d be at least something there while everything fills in.
The Mexican feather grass isn’t coming in very thick this year 😦
Butterfly Mind 
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May 22 photos from the garden
Beautiful garden.