Spring flowers

[ksmith]

Photos from around my yard behind the cut.



Petunias in the planter I assembled/built a few years ago:




Close-up of the Louisa crabapple blooms:



Full shot of the Louisa. It's much prettier in real life--the photo doesn't do it justice:



Closeup of the prairiefire crabapple, covered with buds--the flowers will be magenta




Red tulips:





Edited to add photo of prairiefire crabapple

Comments

[equesgal.livejournal.com]

Wow, simply beautiful! The nights still get too cold here for me to seriously hit the garden. Although my tulips came up....but alas, the cold hit and they are gone. ;-(

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It took a few years, but the crabapples have developed nicely.

I know we're going to get another cold snap between now and Memorial Day. The nights have stayed pretty cool, given that we're so close to the lake.

[topayz4.livejournal.com]

pretty :) I so wish I could have more water intensive plants (living basically in the desert cramps my gardening possibilities.) I didn't get any outside work done this weekend since it decided to snow on and off the whole two days.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

The lawn is holding so much water that my mower won't mulch--all the grass crams beneath the deck. Some of it falls off as I mow. The rest, I need to hose out when I'm done.

Yet we could use some rain. Nothing for the past week, and nothing much in sight.