Late April Bloomings

Yard work is well behind, we had to be sick and had to shop for and pick up a new vehicle, but there is always next week, God willing and the creek don’t rise. I want to expand the garden across the back of the yard and incorporate a heather garden and a rockery in addition to the herbs and perennials that are planted there already. I was also thinking of a small Japanese style garden, but I was reminded by a wise sage that constantly removing leaves and twigs from the raked gravel will surely shift me out of my Zen state quite quickly.

Some late April arrivals or some other flowers I might have overlooked.Alpine Campion -   Lychnis Alpina Snow FlurryArabis “Spring Charm”Lilly of the Valley – I plan on getting some Pink Lilly of the Valley.     Dicentra – the red is ‘luxuriant’  and I think the white is ‘formosa’The front garden has some holes which need fillin’. We had 2 large swaths of Snow cap, but one group died off, hence the hole.Creeping Phlox – all we have is blue. One year we ordered more creeping phlox and when they bloomed, they were the same color as what we already had.Snow Cap    Coral no, English Bluebells   Coral Bells – more next month. We have pink, PINK and whiteish. Lilac – almost all spent, not as smelly(in a good way) as they were a few days ago. That’s OK, this will allow us to smell the Sweet Woodruff planted at the Lilac’s base.