What's Blooming?

Blue Ground Covers

Speedwell

I have it greatly magnified here as it is quite delicate.

Lithodora

My shot is not doing this ground cover justice. This flowers are a true dark blue and it skims the ground like a proper ground cover should. This one quadrupled in size since last summer. I like it so much I planted two more today because they are on sale at Lowe's.

Our pink camellia has produced more blooms this years than ever before and still has buds.

Patio Peach

That is an enormous carpenter bee taking a drink. We planted several non-fruit bearing fruit trees last year to back up our native dogwoods which are diseased.

Southern Dogwood

We have four in the front pictured here and the largest one over our back patio. We hope they live a long time.

We have dogwoods in view from any front window of the yellow house.

We did not trim our crepe myrtles this year. That slipped by us. I do almost all the yard work including cutting the grass with a push mower and Joe trims trees. Sometimes we do not get to all the tasks in the correct time frame.

 

Spirea

I call it Bridal Veil Spirea. I rescued it from a big box store, unmarked, two years ago and this year I finally realized what it is. My beloved aunt had one and I am thrilled I have this one.

Amaryllis

I force them at Christmas then plant them in the garden. They will bloom in two summers this way but every year after that. This one will have three bloom in about two weeks.

♥♥♥

In other happenings here CC went back to college this morning after church. For many reasons her leaving today was terribly hard for both of us. I literally hugged  her to pieces during the last song in church. We enjoyed her spring break very much, not that we did anything that was special other than be together, pet Clovis, talk, and then talk some more.

joy and peace

Olive