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Chamelon Tulips and Other Blooms
Some of our tulips are chameleons! The clear yellow beauty that I featured in Thursday's blog was a lively orange by this morning. This is not an April Fools joke...unless the plant is having it at our expense. More tulips are showing color--yellow, gold, cream, pink. And orange. I guess there is a new light show in the front yard every day.
March is going out like a lion tonight with thunder and lightning and a lot of rain, but not nearly like the soaking Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas got today. Before the rains came, I took this shot of some of our new grape hyacinths, one of Norm's favorites, growing in the raised bed that Matt and Doug built for us, along with the fieldstone wall. This is also a columbine garden, so they will be next.
Just to show that not all of our flowers are yellow/orange, and also not all of them are of our planting, I took a picture of this deep blue hyacinth that volunteers every year in our back yard perennial garden. It must have been planted by a previous gardener, and we enjoy it every year. Whenever we plant perennials, shrubs or trees, to paraphrase Archbishop Romero, we become builders of a garden in someone else's future. We are grateful to the previous gardeners at this place. Next up....the lilac, which we did transplant from our house in Ferguson. May all of your April Fool experiences tomorrow be mild and pleasant ones.
Some of our tulips are chameleons! The clear yellow beauty that I featured in Thursday's blog was a lively orange by this morning. This is not an April Fools joke...unless the plant is having it at our expense. More tulips are showing color--yellow, gold, cream, pink. And orange. I guess there is a new light show in the front yard every day.
March is going out like a lion tonight with thunder and lightning and a lot of rain, but not nearly like the soaking Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas got today. Before the rains came, I took this shot of some of our new grape hyacinths, one of Norm's favorites, growing in the raised bed that Matt and Doug built for us, along with the fieldstone wall. This is also a columbine garden, so they will be next.
Just to show that not all of our flowers are yellow/orange, and also not all of them are of our planting, I took a picture of this deep blue hyacinth that volunteers every year in our back yard perennial garden. It must have been planted by a previous gardener, and we enjoy it every year. Whenever we plant perennials, shrubs or trees, to paraphrase Archbishop Romero, we become builders of a garden in someone else's future. We are grateful to the previous gardeners at this place. Next up....the lilac, which we did transplant from our house in Ferguson. May all of your April Fool experiences tomorrow be mild and pleasant ones.
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