Another day another daylily

I am loving the daylilies this year!  I think they are prettier this year than in the last few years.  We had sufficient rain and hot but not too hot weather.  I took these pictures a couple of days ago.

Pale yellow with a mauve accent

These are really almost a pale chartreuse with burgandy

I am always looking for red daylilies

Here's another red

Daylily mixed in with artemesia.  I love the silvery foliage! This is my newest garden.
Out in the full sun away from the house.  That's the only place where I have full sun but
I can't get water to it so things have to able to take care of themselves.

Echo is watching out for me

Can this really be Spring?

We've only just had the equinox and already it's acting like Spring.  The trees are leafed out, the dogwoods are blooming, the daffodils have come and gone, the grass is growing.  It seems way too early for all these things to be happening.  We didn't get much of a winter.  A few really crazy cold days but mostly not bad.  I don't like the cold so I don't mind.

This was a quick tour of the yard this afternoon.

Vinca major or periwinkle

Money plant

Lorapetalum.  A large open shrub with purple foliage and these fringy flowers .

My Bloodgood Japanese maple.  I love this tree.  It was planted  years ago and has loved the spot I put it in from the very beginning.

Native red honeysuckle growing up a trellis

Thrift or creeping phlox.  Pale blue flowers.

The dogwoods in the backyard.  White clouds everywhere.

So that's the tour for today.  Stay tuned for more as they come along.

Blustery, sunny day in NE GA

I just love pansies

Weeping cherry tree

March went out like a lion instead of a lamb this year.  We had a return of cold, wet weather last week.  Just in case we forgot how much we were tired of it.  The wind is blowing today constantly at 10-20mph and gusting even more.  I put on my coat and hat and went out to cut grass.  Now my head feels like it''s going to explode.  I just had to get outside, though.  The yard was calling to me.

Columbine from some seeds I scattered
a couple of years ago.  I'm surprised they do as well
as they do.

Old fashioned bearded iris



More things are blooming, now.  The old fashioned bearded iris are blooming.  These are transplants from another house we lived in when we first got married.  The house was about 100 years old and had lots of old plants around the yard.  When we moved to the new house 15 years ago, I had to bring everything with me. Old fashioned purple and white iris, winter honeysuckle, forsythia, spirea, bulbs.  I brought everything! My garden here started out just to be a holding bed but soon took on a life of its own. It keeps telling me things to do and I happily comply. I've put in 2 little ponds, one with a creek, an arbor my son's welding class made for me when he was in high school, climbing roses on anything that will hold them and more plants than I care to remember. Many have not survived the deer, drought, late freezes, whatever but the ones that have are very happy.

Money plant loves the shade of
the oak trees

Creeping phlox growing on the driveway
banks

French hyacinths