Mid-Atlantic Gardening: What's happening in your neck of the woods? Spring 2012, 5 by rubyw

rubyw wrote:
Gorgeous plants everyone!!! Jen, you have certainly out done yourself. Either you grow some exceptionally lovely plants or are a great photographer. Anyway......enjoyed them all.

Holly, my four Clematis are in areas that I don't access very often and I often miss their blooms for while before realizing they are blooming. I noticed that two of mine are blooming when I was on front deck the other evening, and need to go out and snap a few photos. I can't recall their names, but one of them in particular always puts on a grand show each year.

I suppose since I have already posted a few pics that I took a few days ago, I will share them here also, in case some of you haven't seen them yet. I did a walk around of the back forty (hahaha) last evening and ended up some work for myself later today. I have two pots of Sedum Sarmentosan to get potted later today. I started picking pieces that had grown out of the beds and were in the walk way and ended up with that many stray pieces. Enough for several good sized pots, for sure. I also pulled up some stray Yellow Archangel and plan to pot some of it today also.

Each time I walk around to look at the gardens, I see so much work to do. I am getting a lot better about stopping to enjoy the beauty versus only seeing the untidiness of things though, and that is an improvement for me. Our Iris have done especially well this spring and I am now looking forward to the blooms of the hundreds of Day Lilies on our hill.

Well, let me post a few pics for you folks.

Happy Mothers Day to all.

Ruby