Allow me to share just one small section of my front garden, this morning

[Siwsan]

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

1. That's beautiful! ...nt.

[Phoenix61]

2. That's beautiful!

I’m working on trying my front yard into a happy place for bees and butterflies.

[SergeStorms]

24. Plant some Butterfly Bush.

It should grow quite well if you're in Phoenix (just a guess there) and will attract butterflies, bees and even hummingbirds. But you might already know all that.

[Phoenix61]

38. Nope, Gulf coast of Florida but

I’ve been looking for the name of that plant. There’s a beautiful one around the corner from me and I wanted to get one but didn’t know what it was. I’ve got several milkweed plants for the monarchs that pass through and two bottle brush plants.

[Mazeltov Cocktail]

42. Pentas attract butterflies in Florida...

I believe they are also called rubiacias.


Also, that is a beautiful garden, I really miss bulb flowers.

[SergeStorms]

63. Oh, it'll grow like crazy there.

Check with your local authorities though, because it's considered an invasive species in some areas. I'd say in your climate your "bush" could grow to about 12-15 feet wide and twenty feet tall. That's a lot of bees, butterflies and hummingbirds.

https://www.almanac.com/plant/butterfly-bush

[Phoenix61]

66. Thanks for posting. I'll have to pass

on growing it. As much as I like it, I’m trying to avoid invasive species.

[redstatebluegirl]

3. Lovely!

Mine took a beating last night from hail . So nice to see a beautiful one in tact!

[CrispyQ]

4. So pretty!

I love grape hyacinths and have a miniature vase just for them! I would definitely clip a few & bring them into the house.

[Glorfindel]

5. Gorgeous! Daffodils are long gone from here (north Georgia)

But there are some peonies and irises blooming, along with a few paper white narcissus. And in the woods, the honeysuckles are beginning to bloom. Thanks for sharing, Siwsan!

[Siwsan]

9. The first Daffs to bloom are now gone. Still plenty in the gardens further from the house

Peonies are popping up, tall, though the earth and the narcissus are looking like they just need a few days of sunshine for those buds to open. I'm keeping my eye on the perennials.

I have yellow, pink, red and orange/yellow bi-color tulips and about 5 different kinds of daffodils. I'm going to put markers in the gardens, identifying the plants by color so when I thin them, I can spread them out for more diversity in the varity and colors of the blooms.

[luvallpeeps]

54. My Dad is from Blue Ridge!

Best Dad in the world. Still have a lot of family down there. Good-hearted, but misinformed. (nice way to put it?) My one aunt was talking about Barack Obama, and she asked me and my sisters "what about that black boy trying to be President"? We just told her up there in Detroit, it's different. We never let on we were knocking on doors for the guy. She was 85 at the time. Absolutely hilarious, beautiful, kind, yet an incredibly misguided woman. God rest her soul. She could make biscuits in her sleep. When I asked her how come mine weren't as good as hers, she told me "you're standin' wrong"!

[Glorfindel]

61. Well, hello there! I'm from one county south of Blue Ridge, Gilmer County

brought up in a family of good Democrats in a Republican county (even when the rest of Georgia was Democratic!) "Good-hearted but misinformed" is probably the best way to put things. Bless their hearts. I lived in south Mississippi for 18 years (work related) but came back home when I retired. It's true: "You can take the boy out of the mountains, but you can't take the mountains out of the boy."

[luvallpeeps]

62. I'm thinking about all the people down there going back to work.

Hoping to hell the virus doesn't break out again. Damn it to hell, this makes me sick. That governor you have is a real winner ay? It made me laugh when he tried to claim he had no idea the virus could be spread by people who were asymptomatic. AS IF!! So with that new info, what does the guy do? Open every damn thing with not even kinda meeting the guidelines for opening up America again set forth by big Don the Con! Winning!!! Be careful out there, and just cuz you can, don't mean you should.

[Harker]

6. It's like awakening to a bouquet...

Thank you!

[Niagara]

7. Gorgeous!

You knocked my socks off this morning with this gorgeous photo.

[Wounded Bear]

8. Lovely! nt

[NellieStarbuck]

10. Thank you for sharing this lovely garden.

I had hoped for something similar in my new home, but I quickly discovered that deer will not allow it. After sinking about 70 of a variety of bulbs in my garden, I have only five daffodils to show for it. And they looooove tulips, as soon as they erupt.

[Siwsan]

11. For the very first time, I just discovered deer tracks in my veg garden!

Not sure when they were 'visiting' as the tracks looked quite old. There is a wooded area about 1/2 a mile, or so, up and across a normally busy street. They never bothered any of the flowering plants so I'm hoping it was a one time walk-about. I live off of my garden produce, all Winter long.

[flibbitygiblets]

41. I too have lost many flowering plants to deer

They particularly love roses and hostas, as well as azaleas. In northern Oregon anyway.

Here are a few things that they don't seem to care for:
-Heather
-Foxglove
-Lamb's ear
-Daisies including Gerbera
-Pincushion flower
-Daphne
-Rhodies
-Anything odiferous such as catmint
-Daylillies
-Hydrangea

The last two are "for the most part", I have seen the new growth nibbled at occasionally. Hope this helps!

[jmbar2]

12. Joyful!

What part of the country are you in? Looks like you can grow just about anything. I'm so jealous.

[Siwsan]

13. Michigan

The house is surrounded, on all 4 sides, with flower gardens. Plus some in the yards and a BIG veg garden, in the back. When I first moved in, I had to cover some over because it was too much to take care of, before I retired.

[jmbar2]

17. Ah Wisconsin...

Looks like a gardener's paradise. At least for part of the year. Thanks again for sharing your fabulous garden pic!

[LisaM]

40. Beautiful. I'm from Michigan (live in Washington now).

I'm going to miss lilacs this year. We are in an apartment, and we have a path we can walk along, but there are no lilacs, and parks are largely closed. By the time we have any accessibility to flowers, the lilacs in Washington will be gone.

My problems are small potatoes in the larger scheme, but somehow thinking that I'll never smell a lilac this year makes me want to cry. The smell of lilacs in early June in Michigan is one of the sweetest smells on this earth.

[evilhime]

14. Gorgeous!!!

Thanks! Makes me realize that Gaia really does know best!! You've made me smile!

[Butterflylady]

15. I just love spring flowers and fall leaves

My 2 favorite seasons. Your flowers are gorgeous.

[Scarsdale]

16. Just beautiful.

Thanks for posting. You obviously have a "green thumb".

[Collimator]

18. Exquisite!

I'm a big fan of blue grape hyacinths, myself. I have read that deer do love tulips* but that daffodils are toxic and the better choice for naturalizing.

Lily-of-the-Valley--which has a short blooming season--are also poisonous to animal browsers. I guess a poison plant garden is the best option against garden grazers.

* Audrey Hepburn spoke about eating tulip bulbs during WWII.

Oh, and thank you, Siwsan, for sharing your lovely garden.

[Chellee]

19. Grape hyacinths and red tulips are one of the prettiest combinations.

What variety of iris is that?

[Siwsan]

20. I think it's a Dutch Iris but I could be wrong. They were here when I moved in.

I have some small purple ones that will bloom in a few weeks and then the big, tall ones that bloom much later.

[asiliveandbreathe]

21. Beautiful Siwsan..perhaps enter DU photo contest??

[onecent]

22. I needed that wonderful picture. It is beautiful!!!

[kentuck]

23. Those are some beautiful colors.

Thanks!

[niyad]

25. Utterly lovely. Thank you for this wonderful present.

[Stuart G]

26. Beautiful...

[LisaL]

27. So pretty.

[cab67]

28. Well done!

A lot of work went into that.

[brer cat]

29. Lovely.

Thank you for sharing.

[chia]

30. You live in paradise.

[Siwsan]

32. This neighborhood was built on what was formerly farm/grazing land

I inherited this house from my aunt. It is one of the earlier builds and sits on a double lot and now that I'm well established as a retiree, I can finally start to enjoy the property, rather than seeing it as an energy drainer.

Even at the worst of times, when I was going through so many deaths in a short period of time, I could take solace and distractions in the gardens that my uncle created (although he created FAR too many of them!!!)

Now I look at the daffodils and tulips as representing my Welsh and Dutch heritage. There's a Mock Orange that my aunt so dearly loved. The vegetable garden makes me think of my uncle who pretty much fed the neighborhood with what it produced. I'm not quite THAT ambitions! I have Hosta plants from my nephew's property in North Carolina. I have Bleeding Heart plants that remind me of my grandmothers, both of whom had those in their gardens. Day Lilies, like my mother planted. Bee Balm, like my sister loved. Basically, my family history is written in my gardens. And now I'll start sharing all of this with my niece.

[chia]

37. Thank you for sharing, and for your story - it touches me, since I too have carried plants

with me from one home to another that are connected to family. I look at them and remember - the rosebush that was in my mom's garden with one beautiful, fragrant rose that I took inside to her before she died. I took that rosebush out of the ground before we sold her house, and I can see it out my window now as I type. And the calla lilies that are descendants from my grandmother's garden via my aunt's garden who gave me some of her thinnings which I've passed on to my own children so we can keep them going. They appreciate the history behind them, and I'll always have the memory of seeing those long elegant stems in my aunt's vase. The people are all gone now, both my parents, all my aunts and uncles on my mom's side are gone, all but one on my dad's side.

Your uncle must have been one amazing gardener! I'm glad for you, for your rich memories of family. Stay well!

[lucca18]

31. Wow...Beautiful!!

[wendyb-NC]

33. Beautiful colored blooms.

Each one complements the others so well. Thank you, for posting.

[Bayard]

34. Beautiful!

My tulips, daffodils, and grape hyacinths are done now, but peonies are ready to pop.

[gademocrat7]

35. Stunning!

Thank you for sharing your garden with us.

[MLAA]

36. Omg, it's gorgeous! Well done!

The color combination is spectacular. Tulips are my all time favorite.

[BarbD]

39. Gardeners are the world's best optimists.

They plant and believe in life.

Thanks for posting.

[stopwastingmymoney]

52. I think about that too

It’s a process where you are always planning a year or more into the future, it eases the worries of now. And at the same time there is always something to look forward to in the near future. Very therapeutic 😄

[AllaN01Bear]

43. ohm myyyy goodness.

[LAS14]

44. Oh, thank you!!! Where is this? (unless answered upthread). nt

[Siwsan]

45. Mid-Michigan

The weather has been perfect for Spring blooms - not too warm, not too cold. And with just enough rain.

[Blue Owl]

46. Lookiin good!

[Luciferous]

47. Gorgeous!

[nastywoman2]

48. Simply beautiful!

Instantly lifted my spirits!
Waiting in anticipation for my first bloom to pop open in my northern lower Michigan garden.
Thanks for sharing!

[Fla Dem]

49. Will you come and help me with my garden?

Yours is beautiful! Everything I plant dies. 🥺

[magicarpet]

50. Oh my,.... where do you live ? ,.... near the equator ?

We had a 15 minute snow squall here in Maine just yesterday.

Your place is just beautiful,.. thank you for the spring has sprung photos.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

51. Beautiful addition to your sidewalk area. Brings peace to your neighborhood.

You've inspired me to get back to work on my front yard patch along our road. My original patch was mostly destroyed last year by the water/sewer company installing a drainage pipe alongside the road, so I'm building from scratch. Had to put the best plants I wanted to save such as azaleas in pots and they wintered pretty good.

Getting the tiller out is my next chore.


Thanks for posting!.....

[luvallpeeps]

53. That looks like hope to me! Beautiful!

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[Light63]

55. Beautiful spring flowers

I truly enjoy spring flowers, especially after a long hard winter in Chicago.

How do you insert a picture in the post? I’ve tried to figure it out but for the life of me, I have not been able to figure it out!

[Siwsan]

56. I use Imgur.com

Click on the 'new post' box in the upper left hand corner. You can drag the photo into the box or select it from your photo folder. Once it opens, go to share options, copy the BBCode and paste that into the post.

[Light63]

67. Thank you, Siwsan

[malaise]

57. Absolutely beautiful

Thanks

[BootinUp]

58. life!

taken from a scene in Planet of the Apes.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

59. Love it!

Merry Springtime.

They can’t ruin everything.

[Joinfortmill]

60. Beautiful

[JudyM]

64. Lovely! There's something about pops of purple

that uniquely complements a garden. I have a healthy ajuga crop this year and the purple flowers are a joy.

[NurseJackie]

65. I'm jealous of you! It's lovely! Thank you!

[a kennedy]

68. Jealous of it as well.......darn it......i've got weeds and a ton of quack grass.

Haven’t bought any plants for this season yet....a few more days and I’ll think about it. Yours is so beautiful.