A Slight Obsession with the Yard

On a day to day basis the garden is changing, everything is growing in (some of it slightly out of control!) and little buds are appearing everywhere. I'm so freakin' psyched for flowers out there that even the slightest hint of a bud makes me happy! I've been going out every single day, sometimes multiples times per day, to check the progress of the flowers. It would probably be much more effective if I could let some more time go by and then have a really big surprise. Perhaps the next couple of days of rain will provide that.

But seriously, check out the tops of those tall red plants…

Those are the Celosia and they will soon have big tall spikey red flowers…in fact I may need to move some stuff out of those planters as it might get way too crowded in the near future in there.

Behold our mystery perennial above, that tall spikey ones that will soon have big white flowers. Gino couldn't remember what type of plants these were and they are pretty non-descript right now. I am hoping once the flowers come in full I will be able to identify it. Bud close up:

We have five of these things and they are all super tall now and covered in these little white buds so chances are there is going to be some major flower action out back in the very near future—sweet!

What else? Well my favorite plant in the garden changes on a weekly basis. My current obsession is our Globe Blue Spruce. Man, it's the best color and it's looking so fat and bushy! I wish we could get more blue plants, especially for the front of the house, but they need TONS of direct sunlight to get that color. What a shame. But just for contrast here is a before/after shot of the blue spruce in the foreground with the rest of that side of the garden, top photo taken 3 weeks ago and the bottom one a couple of days ago.

Wow, what a change! Our birch is now weeping below our mystery perennials with the white flowers. Me thinks there is some pruning in our very near future.

Talking about bushy, the meadow sages and looking huge and green and just in the past few days we've seen the beginnings on their soon-to-be tall spikey purple flowers

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Comments

[Todd - Home Construction Improvement]

That's a very beautiful garden!! I'm quite jealous....I wish ours were that nice!

[dana]

thanks Todd! We had tons of help but we have been working our butts off out there...it's nice to hear compliments on our little postage-stamp of a yard....believe me, if we can do it so can you!