While we might not have amazing huge garden plants yet, it’s always encouraging to see how many shades of green I could find yesterday as I wandered around the yard. Mother Nature will not be denied!
The dogwood trees along the front of the property are looking lush and green…a slightly darker green than the grass.
The bushes with new growth are a lovely spring green.
And of course, at the end of the shop are our green rain barrels. They are already full, waiting to be pumped up to the holding tank by the garden.
The forsythia plants had a good showing of yellow flowers this spring. Now they’ll just be ordinary-looking bushes around the property.
The lavender and echinacea up in the garden have another version of “green” that looks really healthy after the mild winter.
The butternut tree up by the garden is one of the last ones in our yard to leaf out.
The geraniums near the hummingbird food brings a little color while we wait for flowers and vegetable plants.
Speaking of vegetable plants…it feels like it’s been a long spring already, but we are careful with our plants in May. The chance for a killing frost before Memorial Day is always in the back of our minds. So, we’ve risked starting the radishes and lettuce in the raised planters.
The tomato plants can have a few hours of sunshine but they go back under the grow lights at night.
And the most fun is watching a few potatoes that we missed in the fall, sprouting right along the edge of the bed where we hope to plant the small yellow pear tomatoes…in a few weeks. We’ll see if they can coexist!
I hope Mother Nature is waking up in your area too! Enjoy every day!