Spring Flowers

 I've been busy in the garden cleaning out flower beds, pruning and planting new annuals and perennials.

Delphenium

Our frost date has just passed so it's supposed to be "safe" to plant.  My goal is to get everything planted by the end of April however we are supposed to get down to freezing again Wednesday morning so I have stopped planting but still have three flats of assorted annuals and perennials to put in the ground. 

I will be dragging out sheets and covering new plants and since it's only going to briefly get down in the low 30's everything should be fine.  

 Here in Oklahoma we frequently have late freezes in the spring and then before we know it the weather gets very warm.

Bloodgood Japanese Maple


Here are a few photos of my garden this past week.   Tulips are still blooming!

Sherbet Tulip blend

Angelique Tulip

Columbine

 

Snowball viburnum

   

Mixed border

Variegated Weiglia

Crossing my fingers the weatherman are wrong!  Happy Gardening!

Spring Days

Spring is here and I've been outside in the garden cleaning out flower beds and planting cold hardy perennials and a few spring annuals.

My daffodils and tulips are blooming and they give me such joy.  My hubbie and I planted over 200 tulips last fall and don't know if they are going to finish coming up as we had a very bad arctic blast just as they were emerging.   The tulips I planted two falls ago are blooming but they aren't as prolific as the first year blooms.  Thankfully daffodils multiply and reward me with more each year. 

Avanti Daffodils

My azaleas took a hit and are brown but the leaf tips are budding out with fresh new growth.  I will have to have patience as some of my plants have been here for years and I don't want to prematurely rip them out.  Fingers crossed they will come back with fresh new leaves.

We completed our first spring chore of resealing our stamped concrete patio.  I choose a higher gloss this time and I love how it turned out.  

I put a fresh coat of paint on my butterfly bench and found the accent pillow on Amazon.

Spearmint heuchera with red blooms

If you have never grown heuchera or coral bells I highly recommend you try them.  Last year I purchased three watermelon, three spearmint and two citornelle varieties.  All of them made it through our -14 degree cold blast and handled our 95 plus summer last year and look amazing already this spring.    I'm so impressed with how well they have done in my garden I went out and purchased 6 more varieties.  They are my new favorite perennials.

Citronelle Heuchera is a lime green that looks amazing in the shade garden and paired with pinks and purples.

Above is the Watermelon heuchera.  I love the variation in the color of the leaves and the sweet pale pink blooms are so pretty.  

Watermelon Heuchera (last summer)

I went plant shopping and was able to find most of the plants on my wish list.  I will have to wait for the warm season bedding plants to arrive at my nursery and I'll make another plant haul or two.   

Happy Spring!